Chapter 123 - Familiar woes

William only sighed at that.

Rosaline asked. “Why are you sighing like an old man?”

“I am afraid you will dump me for someone with a warm and welcoming family.”

“Like Tristan?”

“Can you not salt my wounds?”

“I can assure you I’ll never get together with Tristen. Though, I have to invite him to dinner and pass him his gift. Let’s do that tonight if he is free.”

“Why don’t you ask me if I am free?”

“Are you not?”

“I want to spend the night spooning my girlfriend.”

“You might have to get yourself another girlfriend to do that.”

“Heartless woman!”

“Women have to be heartless. Otherwise, we’d get taken advantage of.”

“Sucks to be me, then!”

“What’s the issue between you and your mother?”

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She is a bit like your parents. She treats everything Supriya says as gospel. I probably should not say this about my mother, but she is prone to flattery and is easily convinced as long as you act pitifully and project your ideas as her intelligent deductions.

She becomes very stubborn when she puts he