Chapter 18
October 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Lissi’s Love
Lissi Delgado looked over at the nervous young lady sitting next to her in the passenger seat of her car as she drove away from her antique shop. American, intelligent, and probably one of the most beautiful women she’d ever seen.
“Gee, it’s rough spending time with your boring old mother-in-law, isn’t it?” Lissi said.
The girl simply shrugged.
Trying to cheer her up, Lissi said, “Oh, come on, Melina, don’t worry. Ari and Nara no doubt got snagged in heavy traffic, that’s all.”
Melina was still visibly nervous, though she responded with, “I told you this morning I had a bad feeling.”
Ah, yes, Lissi thought to herself, those bad feelings. She’d heard all about her daughter-in-law and her bad feelings ever since she’d joined the family just over half a year ago—and just how often bad things would happen after those bad feelings.
No! I won’t think like that! There has to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for my daughter’s tardiness.
And there was.