Richard’s POV
Declan and I have always had a strange friendship, relationship, if you could call it that. His mom made the best food. I won’t lie I was jealous that he had someone that still made him meals even when he went off to college. I teased him a lot, couldn’t help it. I didn’t have that kind of relationship with my own family.
When Beau told me that we would be going to Declan’s mom’s place for the weekend. I was ecstatic, mostly to get the food directly from the source. Once, we made it there the house I envisioned of his family was simple, modest even but what we were met with was something opulent.
Beau pulled me aside giving me the speech. “Be nice to his mother and don’t try to start issues. You never know she may have a poor image of you already.”
“Why?”
“Because you b
