If Blake ever did have to meet his real future parents-in-law, he imagined that this day was probably very good practice for then. For one thing, he was unusually nervous, even if he looked perfectly composed on the outside. And that was the thing he didn’t understand.
Why the nerves? Her parents didn’t know anything about their whole arrangement, they didn’t have any prejudices against him the way his own parents had against Lila, and from what Lila had said, they sounded like people who were easy to get along with.
It was probably just the anxiety being irrational, he thought, and squared it away to be dealt with later.
For now, he stood with Lila at the closed door to her family home, waiting for someone to answer the doorbell.
It did not take long. There were loud footsteps, follow
