The three of them staring at each other as they all sit down in the comfortable Victorian couch in the sunroom littered with porcelain vases of roses varied in shapes, colors, and sizes.
Madam Bae and Aunt Joy were sitting opposite him and Jess, who was busy shoving mandarins on her face.
The scent of the flowers in the room is putting him into a daze, making him forget how they got here from the airport with Jess' taking the last word.
The tension in the air was so thick, he could cut it with a butter knife. Grimacing under his breath, he reviewed all he had heard about the notorious Aunt Joy from Ellise and Jess and he ended up speechless, sitting there like a loser and not an only heir to a pharmaceutical empire.
He glanced over his right shoulder and saw Jess, still
eating Mandarin, oblivious to the impediment he was in.
