Chapter:- 103

Alec tossed aside his phone in resignation. Fantastic. He willed the time to pass faster and the kettle to take longer, hoping his mother would be home before he even had to return with the tea, but luck was not on his side. The kettle sounded, and he reluctantly gathered everything else he needed trying not to prolong further. He hadn't been raised to be rude after all.

When he returned to the living room with the tea, Jenny was browsing the shelves, looking over the new pictures they had added. His father had insisted, and there were pictures of the four of them as well as their friends and family covering the living room. There were pictures of them at coffee shops during Ethan's gigs, pictures they had taken at the dinner parties they had held, and pictures of them at birthday celebrations. Everyone was accounted for. Well, almost everyone anyway.

Jen didn't turn around when he entered the room. Instead, she kept her eyes glued on the picture that had been taken a few days earlier