CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The party began at seven in the evening, and everybody rushed to be there on time. Ian and Mark’s friends with their wives were the only ones who didn’t truly belong to the Winston family.
Aunt Marjorie, Matt and Jay’s mother, and Emilie, Ariel and Becka’s mother, together with their husbands, took care of all the children and shooed the young parents away, telling them to have fun.
Bryan opened the door for Lily and Mark. Mark gazed at him and concluded that he didn’t look too bad for a man who had spent most of the night fighting goons, and most of the afternoon baking pastries.
Everyone wanted to make his acquaintance, so Lily made the rounds with him to introduce him. People seemed to accept him. Even the famous bitter Ariel didn’t do anything else but throw some
