Chapter 317: Family dinner (3)
"There you are," Celeste said, going straight to where Rafael sat. "Why isn’t anyone greeting me? Did you forget that you invited me over for food?" She asked since the house had gone silent upon her arrival.
"How could we forget grandmother? Your timing just surprised us. I am happy to see you joining us tonight. Rafael, this is my grandmother, Celeste Woods," Annalise said, getting up to greet her grandmother with a hug.
Dinner was always fun when Celeste came around.
Rafael stood up with Annalise to greet Celeste. "It is nice to meet you. I am Rafael Callahan," he said, extending his hand to her for a handshake.
Celeste stared at Rafael’s hand. "It appears that this family will continue to have tall men in it. Don’t greet me with a handshake. Greet me with a hug. I have a bit of a connection with your family. First Iris and now Annalise," she said, walking toward Rafael.
Celeste hugged Rafale for the purpose of trying to determine if he was a negative or a positive person. She was talented at telling what person might bring happiness and those that would drain you. It was why she stayed in her house when she saw someone walking her way.
"He’s a good one though I sense a bit of death around you, but that wouldn’t make you any different than Phillip. Sit down so we can talk," Celeste said, stepping away from him to go to her seat at the head of the table. "I have been waiting many years to hear more about Nicolas and Iris. Little did I know that I would hear about my old friend this way."
Celeste believed it was all nature’s doing that Annalise and Rafael had come together. Putting a different ending to Nicolas and Iris’s story. Their romance had the potential to put an end to the war and make life better for couples with one person from each side.
Celeste wished there had been a way for Nicolas to be here to spend Iris’s last days with her. As the wife of a former leader, she could not bring that change to have Nicolas welcomed here.