CHRISTIAN
“I’m starving,” Jess groaned, rubbing her stomach dramatically.
Penelope smiled softly, although her eyes didn’t quite match the smile on her lips. “You guys go ahead and eat. I’m going to freshen up real quick.”
She slipped away before anyone could protest, disappearing upstairs and toward her room.
My mother turned to me, with the brightest smile I had seen on her since the day my father announced he had another son. I guess she was the only one happy to see me.
“My darling, how have you been? How’s work? You don’t check in on your mother again.”
“You’re just being dramatic mum, Work has been good, and I missed you too.”
My father leaned back in his chair, sipping from a crystal glass. “And the Tokyo branch? How’s that progressing?”
I opened my mouth, about to snap at
