Isla was startled by the commotion and Juno hastily came out of the kitchen.

Adrian turned around and sized up the people who had entered the house.

***

“Ah? You have a visitor today, Isla? Is he your boy toy?

“There’s a saying that widows are always up to no good. Are you playing with your boy toy and cheating on my eldest brother?”

The burly man with a full beard was thirty-six years old, but he looked older than he was—like a man over forty.

As soon as he entered the house, Isla quickly