His grandparents

“Coffee on my desk, Liliana,”. Hunter said as he walked past Liliana's desk after stepping out of the elevator with Melody.

Liliana jumped to her feet, “yes sir”.

Melody cringed at the bright smile on Liliana's face. She has already realized why Liliana did not like her and always looked at her like she was an enemy. Liliana likes Hunter. Well, who wouldn't? He was not just rich, he was handsome and a good man.

"Here you go, Mr. Winthrop”. Liliana said. The bright smile was still on her face as she dropped a cup of hot coffee on Hunter's desk. She continued to stand and wait for him. When he did not look up or spare her a glance, she asked, “any other thing, Mr. Winthrop?”.

"No". Hunter murmured distractedly. His whole attention was focused on the mail that Micheal sent to him.

He gave a laptop to Melody and after teaching her how it's done, he asked her to type some documents from a stack of papers into the laptop for him so that she won't sit down and be idle.

The both of them raised their heads to look at the door when they heard it open. Hunter thought that it was Micheal, but he was shocked to see that it was his grandparents. They did not tell him that they would be coming when he spoke to them last night.

Hunter immediately stood up with a wide smile as he circled the desk to welcome them, “Grandma”.

"Aiyo, look at my lovely grandson”. Callista, Hunter's grandmother, had a wide smile on her face as she spread out her hand and enveloped Hunter in a beer hug.

“Grandpa”. Hunter said before pulling away from his grandmother to give his grandfather, Walsh, a firm handshake and a side hug.

"You look healthy. You must have been eating well, even if you are working hard”. Walsh observed.

" Of course, I have been eating well. I don't want you to move your things to my house to start cooking for me every morning”. Hunter told Walsh. His grandfather was strict when it came to eating healthy.

" It's something I would gladly do”. Walsh told Hunter as he gave him a slap in the back.

Callista was the first to notice Melody's presence in the room. She immediately recognized her as Hunter's mate from the pictures Hunter had forwarded to them.

"Who is this beautiful young lady?”. Callista asked with furrowed brows, pretending that she had never heard about Melody before.

"She is my…”, Hunter caught himself quickly. He had been about to say that Melody was his mate. He brought his hand to scratch the back of his head with a sheepish smile. “She works for me. She is my office assistant”.

" She is a beautiful girl”. Callista complimented Melody, who had stood up to greet them. Callista walked up to Melody and grabbed her hands as she gave her a bright smile, “you look so young to be working. Aren't you supposed to be in school by now, or are you done with high school”.

" Grandma". Hunter called in warning. He knew that the topic of school would be a sore topic for someone like Melody. She did not have a chance to complete her high school because she exposed her father and ran away.

"Your grandmother knows what she is doing”. Walsh whispered to Hunter with a wink before dropping onto a chair.

Callista ignored Hunter," you should be in school little girl".

"I am going to be attending a culinary school soon. Rebecca is teaching me how to cook”. Melody told Callista. She did not find her question about why she was not in school offensive, as it was a normal thing to ask when you find a young person working when it was school hours.

"Haaa, you are the one Rebecca spoke about? Good" Callista beamed. “ Me and Walsh here are also looking to take in a student we can teach while we are here. It's been a long time since we did that. You can be our new student”. Callista turned around and pointed to her husband.

" Ah?”. Melody's mouth dropped in shock at Callists's word and her eyes drifted to Walsh, who gave her a wave and a wide smile. She remembered that Hunter told her that his grandparents and his mother were also chef's like Rebecca. “You don't have to do that. Rebecca is teaching me already”. She shook her head quickly.

" But Rebecca can always abandon you to go and see her boyfriend, but we won't do that, so it's settled. You are our new student, as we don't have anything to do. We came to visit Hunter and won't be going back anytime soon. Welcome”. Callista grabbed Melody's face and planted a kiss on her cheek before turning to walk back to Hunter, who also had a surprised look on his face.

Melody shocked eyes met Hunter's eyes. She gave him a look to stop his mother, but he only responded with an innocent look before turning to face his grandparents.

"When will you be going back?”.

"You are already chasing us away?”. Callista glared at Hunter.

"No, I mean, when are you going to my house? I still have work to do, and it's still early so I can't drive you home”. Hunter quickly corrected himself after the ferocious glare his grandmother gave him.

"Work morning, work afternoon and work at night. Don't you ever rest? You are just like your grandfather, always looking for what to do. All the Winthrop men thinks that life is all about working”. Callista sneered.

" Hey, don't drag me into this”. Walsh told Callista.

"They got it from you”. Callista snapped at Walsh before looking at Hunter, “no more working again for today. I want to have a lovely time with my grandson. We are all going out to eat”. She told Hunter in a commanding voice.

"But grandma…”, Hunter started to protest but was cut off.

"No buts, boy”. Callista growled at Hunter before waving at Melody, “you too. No more working today until later”.

Melody kept her mouth shut and looked at Hunter, waiting for what he would do. She was working for him, so he was the one she took commands from.

"Fine, just for today”. Hunter told his grandmother.

"I would drag you out with me anytime I want. You can only have peace to work when I have returned back with your grandfather, and that won't be until a long time later, little boy. Now everybody out”.