Finding New Happiness) Chapter 7: Stepmother
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“Sorry, let me make another call.” I said, glancing at Alex, who sat stiffly on the sofa, and I silently cursed my parents for arranging this dinner and then disappearing. It was clearly their idea to invite someone over for dinner, and now they had vanished into thin air. The phone was unreachable. I bombarded them with messages, but it was like throwing a stone into the ocean. “I see,” Alex said, a knowing glint in his eyes, “This is your parents‘ way of giving you some space.” “Huh?” I was completely lost.
Aię stood up and pulled me off the couch.“Your parents might be out on a date. Let ́s not disturb
go home.” them.” He pulled me towards the dining room.“If you don’t eat, the staff won’t dare I glanced at the eight dishes and a soup on the table, feeling a bit overwhelmed. There was no way in my stomach. two people could finish all that. It felt like I had a tapeworm Alex pushed me into a chair. “If you can’t finish, we can pack it up; the kids at home could use a meal.”
“What?““You have kids now?” I shot up in surprise. My parents hadn’t mentioned this a marriage scam?
He calmly placed a piece of fish on my plate.“Yeah, quite a few.”
any
kids. Was
I swallowed hard. More than one? Four or five maybe? I stared at his stoic face. I never imagined him as a father of many.
“Regretting it?” he asked.
“Not really.” I replied.
“You’re pretty chill about this.”
He piled my bowl high with food.
Whatever, a stepmother was a stepmother, I accepted.
