Love's Redemption
"Sorry to keep you waiting."
"Half an hour is nothing," came the calm reply, the man’s demeanor exuding a quiet dignity.
"Hayden," Hayden introduced himself, extending a hand.
The other man didn’t reciprocate. Instead, he said evenly, "You should already know who I am."
The man was none other than Peter Mitchell, the patriarch of the Mitchell family from Windy City. Though he was already eighty, he looked no older than sixty and carried himself with a robust vitality.
Hayden wasn’t fazed. After all, by age alone, the man could easily be his grandfather. The fact that Hayden had deliberately kept him waiting was a breach of etiquette, and the lack of a handshake was a subtle but deserved rebu