Chapter 167

Wanting to surprise Mia by calling her parents to the US for celebrating Mabel’s birthday, I come up with a plan. I talk to Mia’s dad and tell him to be ready to take a week’s off from work to visit us over here as it is the first birthday of the daughter of their daughter. I even asked him about booking flight tickets for both of them, but he refused. He said that he would manage, but he will be there for the celebration. Not only desperate but already very excited to see the look on my wife’s face when she sees her parents in front of her eyes after more than two years. It hasn’t been easy for her to leave her family and decide to stay here with me, which is why this is high time that she must get to meet her parents. Never has she also mentioned to me about inviting them to spend some time with us when, as a daughter, she had the liberty to get them to meet their granddaughter. Calling them here is the best thing for now as Mia cannot travel to Paris to meet them. Mabel and Gordon n