Introducing Matthew Bloomberg to my mother went pretty much the way I thought it would be. Which was to say, it was super weird as hell, but everyone was committed to pretending it wasn’t.
Especially considering I had to skirt around our actual relationship. And he probably wasn’t what she's expecting from Niel's First Proper Boyfriend.
He was charming, though. Attentive and courteous. Perfect gentleman caller material. Not shy, exactly, because there was too much assurance in him for that, but careful. Like he’d come to pick me up for prom and was concerned his intentions might not be deemed honorable.
And if my mom knew he was a wildly famous and important type person, she'd be too polite to make a big deal out of it.
But she did ask Matthew what he did and he replied mildly that h
