The three of them stood up at the same time.

Seeing that, Sharon Lindt immediately waved at her son. “You should do it.”

Josh Batton nodded obediently, then headed into the kitchen while his parents sat back down to chat with Annabeth Cates.

“Tell me, Annabeth, has Josh been good to you lately? You can complain to me if he’s done anything to upset you,” Sharon said.

“Yeah, we’d teach him a lesson if that was the case,” her husband said.

They both had eager looks in their eyes.

They seemed