#Chapter 16: Liar

Mia's POV “You two are…married?” Her eyes widened in surprise, looking between us. "Mia... what..." A stunned silence filled the room, thick enough to cut with a knife. Albert came to my side. “Yes. We've been in love for a while now. You know your daughter is stubborn. She's refused to let me cover the bills all this time because we were only dating. She didn’t want to feel like she was using me. When I heard that you were in kidney failure, I asked her to marry me so she wouldn't have to worry about it.” He chuckled. “It took some convincing but. Here we are…” He pulled out his phone and offered it to her. “I'm sorry that you couldn't be there, but I hope we'll do a renewal or something, and you can make it.” Love? Years together? The absurdity of it all threatened to send me into a fit of laughter if not for the raw vulnerability etched on mom’s face. She’d always been a bit gullible, but I'd never thought she'd believe him so easily. Bless her heart. Either s