THEODORE
I never would have guessed that my mother, of all people, would show up in Helsinki unannounced just to tell me that I have to marry Carmella.
I slept like s**t last night and I woke up in a terrible f*****g mood. The conference was later today, unfortunately, which meant I couldn't get rid of my mother until then.
Mom didn't come to stay long. She had other matters to attend to first in Paris, then in London. But, of course, she had to come here just to torment me with this s**t I'd been trying to forget for days.
I half expected Alice to be downstairs by the time I woke up, but she wasn't. Only my mother was. She gave me a withering look, then smiled and asked me, "Hungry?"
"Not exactly."
"I hope you thought about what we discussed last night."
I groaned in response. I
