Rosella laughed as she looked at her son. “It’ll be a ladies' night. If a big man like you comes with us… Well, if you’re not afraid of being teased, you can come with us. But whenever I asked you to attend dinners with me, you’d always say you were busy.

“Now that I want to bring your wife to meet my friends, you suddenly say you’re free. Why, are you afraid I’ll sell off your wife?”

Rosella teased her son. “Don’t worry, I promise you I’ll return her to you whole and unharmed.”

Callum blushed slightly as he laughed. “I’m not worried. You’d sell me off sooner than you’d sell Camryn off. I just really am free. I was really busy in the past too. It’s just that, now that the younger ones can help out, us older ones can take the occasional break too, after working so hard for so many years.”

Austin and River could both help out now.

“You’re the protective type and you dote on Camryn the most. It’d be weird if you heard someone dared to touch even a single hair on Camryn’s head and did