Chapter 99: Insensitive
"Amelia," Aiden greeted at the door, a bright smile on his face. He was charming as ever, dressed in a black leather jacket, his hair messy yet falling in all the right places. "I thought you wouldn’t be able to come."
Amelia tried her best to smile, but it was difficult when all she wanted to do was to scream her voice hoarse. Instead, she nodded once, taking in a deep breath. She made sure to subtly adjust the ring on her finger that Matteo had given her last time at the hospital― this diamond was her best weapon on this god-forsaken trip.
Matteo and Amelia were supposed to join the Montgomerys for dinner shortly after the dinner party with the Hawthornes. However, with this joint family trip coming up, Matteo managed to help weasel their way out of it.
Yet, what was preordained could never be avoided. They still crossed paths at the airport.
The Montgomerys and the Hawthornes owned their own private jets. Instead of flying commercially like normal people would, they decided to fly separately on their private aircraft.
While Amelia was glad that it meant she wouldn’t have to spend eight long hours trapped in a flying metal vessel of death with Emmeline and her mother, Annalise, she still loathed the thought of meeting the rest of Matteo’s family.
As Ronan had warned her, they were worse than a thousand Annalises combined.
"Have you ever been to Lesterat?" Aiden casually asked, hopping a little closer to Amelia, which only caused her to move back. "It’s a rather beautiful place filled with freshly fallen snow. They hardly have any warm weather― it’s practically winter all year round!"
"Oh, be a little more sensitive, Aiden," Catherine said from behind, walking over to stand with her son. She affectionately placed a hand on Aiden’s shoulder, her other resting on the handle of her luxury suitcase. "Amelia grew up with no money. How could she afford to step out of the city, much less to Lesterat of all other countries?"