Chapter 205: I am here
"Hmmm... Do it like this... Roast it well. Focus first. If you don’t focus, how will you ever learn? Do you really not know how to roast a simple fish properly? What have you been cooking for my son and my pumpkin all these days? Have you been starving them? I should have known. Look at my little pumpkin. She is always so thin!"
Georgina’s face twitched as she almost threw the damn fish on the woman’s face... But she didn’t. Oh, she wanted to, wanted it with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns, but she didn’t. That would ruin the image she was trying to build.
Instead, she gritted her teeth and smiled. "I have been feeding them," Georgina said as calmly as she could, turning the fish with exaggerated care. "Your son eats like a starving ogre and still has abs, and your pumpkin has more energy than an entire herd of mountain goats. But sure, blame the fish."
The older woman sniffed, clearly unimpressed. "There’s feeding, and then there’s nurturing, dear. A good fish is like a good man, crispy outside, tender inside, and not reeking of charcoal." She leaned in dramatically, squinting at the sizzling fish as if it had insulted her ancestors.
Georgina inhaled deeply through her nose, counted to ten, and wondered, not for the first time, if slathering herself in fish guts and leaping into the fire would be more peaceful than surviving another dinner prep with her mother-in-law.
She gave a quick glance at her useless husband, but the man still continued to pretend as if he did not hear her or the chaos unfolding five feet away. He was calmly fishing as if nothing else mattered at the moment.
"What the fuck is wrong with him!" Georgina muttered under her breath. The idiot had finally become completely useless. Who the hell in their right minds would pick fishing as a class when the damned world was coming to an end and all hell was about to break lose?!
"This delusional bastard! Doesn’t he have any sense of responsibility? Shouldn’t he know that he needs to protect his wife and his child. We are both women for fuck sake. We would become the first targets for assholes when the world order crumbles but does he care? No!"
"That loser brother of his looks better and better these days. I should have married that guy instead of this good for nothing. At least we would have some sort of support right now. Hmph." Georgina continuously muttered as she fried the fish.