The Return Of Zade Delamonte: The Humiliated Son-in-law

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The plan was simple. At least they thought it was. Elsa was to distract her mother with a deep conversation while Ray would cover sneaking out with the phone.

After going over the plan for the umpteenth time, Elsa made the first step. As soon as she located her mom, she knew the plan would never work.

The woman had the phone in her hand and whatever conversation are was hoping to strike there and then would be useless.

She thought of returning to Ray to tell him to draft another plan, but on second thoughts, she decided to try her luck.

She joined her mother in the garden and sat quietly while the woman laughed over a video she was watching.

Elsa remained quiet, waiting to be noticed.

“What do you want?” The question caught her off-guard. Frankly, she hadn't expected the woman to speak to her at all.

“I… I wanted to talk to you about something,” Elsa said, a bit awkwardly.

“Get on with it,” even as she said that her eyes were still glued to her phone screen. Elsa cursed inwardl