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“Don’t be silly. One more prohibition or two isn’t beyond anything you can handle,” she responded.
They both laughed as they cleared the stairs. Walking into the dining room, Rose realized that she wasn’t the last person to arrive. Even though both her parents sat comfortably at the table, Adam was conspicuously absent.
She knew for a fact that her brother had still not gotten back home by the time she went to bed. She surmised that he either wasn’t going to come down to breakfast, or he was going to come really late.
Whatever the case, she knew that he wouldn’t be in trouble compared to if the roles were switched and she was the one in his shoes.
She greeted her parents and sat down to breakfast.
“The last time we were here together, you were very unruly. Can I trust that you will be better behaved this time?” her mother said, feeling depressed.
Every fiber in her being wanted to give a response. She chose, instead, to glance at her mother and continue whatever she was doing, ignoring the question altogether. Hopefully, Lady Somerholm got the message and was wise enough not to continue down that path.
As a servant attended her, she noticed her father had barely touched his breakfast and was, in fact, reading some papers at the table. She wanted to ask but decided against it.
Elsa was right, even though her comment had been made in humor. If she stayed silent, she probably was going to survive this breakfast unscathed. If she made any comment whatsoever, she will have inadvertently opened the door of chaos and directed it her way.
She decided to stay silent.
“So? How are things with you and Lord Rockgonie? Is everything going great?” her mother questioned.
She doesn’t just know when to quit.
“I am eating, Mother,” she responded austerely.
“So you suddenly can’t talk because you are eating?” her mother responded, with her voice on edge.
“Leave her alone,” Lord Somerholm interjected from his reading. “She has said she is eating and does not wish to talk,” her father said, effectively saving her from her mother.
A look at Lady Somerholm and she knew how timely her father’s intervention had been. Her mother had fury stamped all over her face. But in keeping with tradition, she had decided to stay silent, seeing as her husband had told her to.
Rose, on the other hand, had to strain extra hard to keep from chuckling out loud.
I win this round, Mother. Cheers!
Breakfast continued uneventfully till Adam showed up almost at the tail end.
“Morning, Son. Did you rest well?” her mother asked, not bothering to hide her favoritism for the spoilt brat.
“Yes, Mother. You will not believe the night I had,” Adam said cheerily.
“Which is why you decided to insult me with your prolonged absence at the breakfast table?” her father interjected.
Rose almost choked on her food.
Her father had not only defended her, but had also scolded that rotten brother of hers?
What has come over you, Father?
If she found it difficult containing her laughter earlier, looking at Adam’s face now at their father’s rebuke made the job almost impossible this time.
She had to hold her breath to keep from laughing.
Her brother’s face was white with shock.
“I am sorry, Father,” Adam eventually managed to say, to her utmost satisfaction.
Her father announced that he was done and going to head to his study to continue reading. Even though she wasn’t done, she wasn’t going to let her father leave her alone at the table. She didn’t plan on staying with him for long, though. She just planned on using him to make her escape.
