The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Corinne's chastising stopped Lucas from making any further remarks about Jeremy, but he did make a point to tease her, "You're quick to jump to his defense."

Corinne snorted. "Well, he is my husband. Defending him is the right thing to do!"

Corinne's animated response suggested that she was unharmed and that there was nothing for Lucas to worry about. "Fine. I'll praise him for his noble actions. Are you happy now?" "That's more like it. Don't you make things difficult for him!" Corinne said.

Lucas felt that he had been wrongly accused. "My dear sister, you overestimate me. I never will and never have made things difficult for him. If anything, he didn't even give me a chance to settle scores with him after what he did."

"That can't be helped," Corinne said. "You still have a long way to go if you want to catch up to him."

Lucas responded in exasperation, "Wow, how ungrateful of you. How could you care more about your man than your brother? Sigh, I won't argue with you about this anymore. Shall I come over to and offer up some words of comfort to my precious brother-in-law?"

Corinne declined. "You can do it another day. I'll choose a time for you to treat him to dinner."

Lucas then said, "Do you have to be so mean to me? Why do I have to go along with your timing when I'm the one treating him to dinner?"

"If you don't want to, so

didn't want to! I'm super thankful that you've taken the courtesy of choosing

"Perfect! You'll hear from me soon." She

head helplessly. 'Sigh!

his subordinates and approached Corinne with more than a dozen of the highest-quality

what happened earlier. He said he wanted to come over, but I told

and followed her to the elevator. "Why not? Isn't it a good thing that he can visit his mother

Corinne frowned. "No."

The elevator door opened.

with her and