One ninety nine: Let's do it!

“Haven't you been trying?” Her mother asked her. “I didn't ask you because I knew it would hurt you. I was trying to avoid getting you hurt–”

“And so you chose to ridicule me in front of the entire kitchen crew and security team.” Janet cut her mother off.

“What is so shameful about adoption? When your husband was still married to his ex wife, he took her son in and raised him like his own.”

“That is different! The boy belonged to his wife! What was he supposed to do? Get married to her and throw her son away?” Janet squinted her eyes as she spat out.

“Can we just calm down?” Ivan interfered in a tone that was obvious he was trying to sound calm but he was already getting angry. “There is no reason for us to bring up my ex wife and her son. Janet is right, it is a completely different scenario but that's not what's important here.”

Janet scoffed silently as she folded her arms below her breast.

Ivan continued. “We are all adults here, there is no reason for us to be bickering and f