Everyone was slack-jawed with amazement.
Just a kiss?
Was it really necessary to chase after Leopold for 15 years just because of a peck on the lips?
This woman was really something!
"Explain, my foot! My BFF told me a kiss is as good as hitting the hay, and you even held me close, swearing you'd marry me when we grew up! Are you even a man? Can't remember your promises?" Griffin fumed, her anger mounting by the second.
That was her first kiss.
And she had held onto it for 23 years, waiting for Leopold to step up and take responsibility.
But this guy!
He was flat-out denying it!
Leopold was hopping mad, "Which of your BFFs said that? Bring her here. I'll give her a piece of my mind! Responsible for a kiss? If that's the case, considering the number of women I've kissed, should I marry them all?"
"Ptooey! Have I lost my mind? Why did I say 'the number of women I've kissed'? I've only ever kissed Griffin!" He thought.
And it was that very kiss that had sparked a decade and a half of pursuit, leaving him so terrified that he dared not even think of romance.
"You dared to kiss someone else?" Griffin's face turned a shade of jealous green.
Leopold opened his mouth to explain, but Griffin turned her back, clinging to Vivienne's legs and wailing, "Vivienne, look at this scoundrel! Not only does he refuse to take responsibility for me, but he's also messing around with other women. My life is so miserable, truly unbearable."
Vivienne rubbed her temples as Griffin's ranting gave her a headache.
She grabbed Leopold, swiftly healed his previously dislocated arm amid his cries of surprise, and then shoved him toward Griffin.
said dismissively,
pitiful, on the verge of tears. "Vivienne, it really isn't how she's making it out
you think you don't have to take responsibility after
been in a relationship
had
in her dictionary, a
slept together, the responsibility
got to take
is so reasonable! A real problem solver!" She thanked Vivienne in her
was at a
known it would come to this,
was only ten at the time, and Griffin was a cute
he had earnestly promised, "Don't worry, I'll marry you when
remembered that this whole situation was Percival's doing. Thus, there was no way
into it because of something that happened when we were kids, can we?" After
pondered for a moment, then
with hostility.
no objections, neither did Vivienne. She said, "Sort
gaze darkened as she turned to
chill ran down Leopold's spine at her icy tone. He nodded
he hurriedly whisked Griffin
in
"Sure."
in the room was still recovering from Griffin's outburst, eerily
her eyebrows lifting. "Mr. Wolf, that was quite the surprise you arranged for
curled slightly. "Breaking ties with me is not
know
felt a twinge of sympathy for
Leopold returned
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