When Martha and Caroline walked through the front door of the Lynn estate, the entire extended family, who had been waiting anxiously in the living room, stood up in unison.
"Well? How did it go? Is there hope?"
"Sigh..."
Martha opened her mouth, then closed it, letting out a long, theatrical sigh. Her face was a mask of defeat.
"Caroline, looking at your mother... it didn't go well, did it?" Barney Lynn, Arthur's brother, asked nervously, reading the room.
"It's all because of that Conrad," Caroline said, rolling her eyes so hard it looked painful. "If he hadn't sabotaged us, the Lynn family wouldn't have become the joke of the entire conference."
"Conrad? What did Conrad do?"
Arthur Lynn, the patriarch, had been sitting quietly. At the mention of Conrad, his expression shifted to
