That question caught me off guard. For a moment, I just looked at him. Of all the things I expected him to say or ask me, that wasn’t one of them.
Mom, on the otherhand, seemed to pick up on it instantly. She straightened with a hint of curiosity lighting up her expression.
She nodded right along with Dad, having on that hopeful, kind of worried look she got whenever my personal life came up.
"Will you introduce her to us soon?" she asked, her voice eager. "We’d really love to meet her properly, not just through media photos."
I sighed, rubbing the back of my neck. "Yeah."
Mom studied me for a long moment. "I really hope this one is serious, Adrian."
I didn’t answer right away. I just sighed again, heavier this time. About three months. That was all we had left on the clock.
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