Chapter 24

"Hello Emily. I'm glad you could make it. It's good to see you again." Rachel said, as we finally reached where they stood and she surprised me by pulling me into a huge hug. She drew back and looked towards her companions. "Emily, these are my sisters, Patricia and Wendy and our uncle, Trevor." She indicated each one as she called their names. She then turned to me again. "This is Emily, Tyler's girlfriend." "Hi, nice meeting you." Wendy said, giving me a big friendly smile. I waved at them as the others expressed the same sentiments. Half an hour later, I had met and chatted with Tyler's family members. Cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. They were all friendly, loving and easy to talk to. Throughout the whole interlude, Tyler never let go of my hands even though many times I was tempted to pull my hands out of his. I didn't, because I could not make anything look suspicious and ruin the whole thing. After all, everyone was convince of our relationship and I wanted it to stay