"There's more fun in eating together. What did Ms. Kelloway say to you earlier? You seemed rather impatient," she asked, her mouth full.
Ashton Heath swallowed the piece of rib she had fed him before speaking. "Nothing important. You two seemed to have chatted for a while before I came. What did she say to you?"
"Nothing much."
Joanna Lawrence didn't want to tell him about it.
If she told him that Lady Octavia objected to her continuing to act and wanted her to quit showbiz, she might well become the one stirring up their mother-son relationship.
"Nothing?" Ashton clearly did not believe her, his deep black eyes fixed on her, probing. "Really nothing? Baby, I hope you're not hiding anything from me. If she has upset you, tell me."
"Really, it's nothing."
Joanna Lawrence took another rib and fed him, "Am I the type of person who would suffer in silence? On the contrary, you were so curt with her, would she be angry about that?"
