The party

Everyone on the table looked at Jeslyn, accessing her to see if she was indeed looking the way her son said.

Undeniably, she looked stressed and sometimes zoomed out. But the friends thought she was missing her husband. That was the reason Lolita forced her here, to begin with.

Jeslyn smiled and shook her head, "I'm fine. I guess I had too much to drink, I'll use the lady's room." She got up before anyone could expose her.

She knew she lied about the drinks, but so what? It was convenient

Valen watched his mother leave. Just like all the ladies at the table, he knew she lied because he had been watching her since. The boy looked away from his mother's back and shifted his gaze to her cup of non-alcoholic wine, it just went a tad lower from how the waiter brought it to her. Others have drank about four cups, yet she was still on her first.