"Crap, if he doesn't take advantage of this opportunity, wouldn't he be letting down Auntie Ivy's painstaking efforts and these two little tattle-tales' report?"
"Rio, Chani, weren't you two sleeping? How come you're here?"
Roy Thompson hadn't expected things to turn out this way; he was still figuring out how to answer the two kids when he got interrupted by Bella Gordon coming upstairs with hangover tea. Roy was almost scared by her arrival and kept making faces at the kids, hoping they wouldn't give him away!
If Bella knew he was pretending to be drunk and taking the chance to talk nonsense, she would definitely be mad. She might even lump him together with those unreliable men.
"Well, sister, we came to check if Brother Roy has done anything to you?"
