Chapter 298: Carla

Fencing, fighting, monster, true love, miracles.

~Grandfather in The Princess Bride

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Thanksgiving weekend, 2020

Carla was quite sure she hadn't displayed nearly enough sympathy and understanding to Christian when he'd worried about meeting her family for the first time. After all, her family was kind and friendly and of course they'd like him.

Nothing to worry about.

Not that his family wasn't also kind and friendly, and she was pretty sure they'd like her. And, this wasn't her first time meeting them. She'd helped with Nieves' quinceañera, after all. She knew the Palacios family just like she knew everyone else in town.

But it was a very, very different thing altogether to meet them as Christian's girlfriend.

Christian's girlfriend who was also pregnant with his baby, in case anyone cared. Not something his family knew – yet – but that was going to change tonight.