In Love, Never Say Never

However, he had spoiled his son. It was overtly liberal for him to be calling people names.

Gregory waved his fork at me when I was lost in thought. “Ms. Stovall, Daddy would like some pork too!” he said in an attempt to instigate me.

The atmosphere over the dining table instantly chilled.

I did not think that a man of his wealth would stoop to eat something that I took for him.

The difference in our status was clearer than ever before. Just sitting at the same table felt strange; being intimate was out of the question.

“Greg, your dad will help himself if he wants some. He…”

It was a pathetic attempt to diffuse the tension, but Ashton chose this moment to make the situation extra awkward. “Greg, I would like some of that pork.”

Though he addressed Gregory by name, it seemed to me that he was speaking to me.

Even Marcus’s fork had frozen in midair. Everybody was confused.

“Err…” Gregory muttered with a glance down at his sticky hands helplessly. “My hands are dirty. Why don’t you ask Ms. Stovall…”

it any longer. “Mr. Fuller, you have such a strong bond with your son,” he interjected. “You and your wife must be

relationship with Ms. Stovall appears to be pretty normal,” he

a busy man such as yourself would have so much time to poke his nose into other people’s

“Second only to your ability to worry over

chair. “Mr. Fuller, you are indeed eloquent.”

you finished?” he asked. Though his voice had

of big events. He must have sensed that the atmosphere had turned hostile but was most reluctant to put down his fork. “Yes,

he got up. “Thank you for your kind hospitality,” he said politely to us. Gripping Gregory

to Marcus. “Do you have a grudge against Ashton or something?”

upon becoming neighbors, the hostility between them

need for harsh words to be thrown about like that

Marcus was usually mild-mannered. He definitely was agitated earlier, which was most unlike

“Why would you think that?” he said with a light laugh.

it was a topic that he did not wish

only goes to show that there was indeed something going on between

other normal engaged couples. If Marcus refused to discuss it, I wouldn’t have any reason