Chapter 139: The Past Is Over

When the four of them went out to eat dinner, Scarlett was still unhappy even though hours had passed since her conversation with Skyler. She ordered her favorite dish off the menu– fettuccini doused in black truffle and garlic aioli– but found that even those beloved flavors could do nothing to drive her bad mood away.

“What’s wrong with your sister?” Francis asked Skyler when he saw Scarlett twirling her pasta around her fork absent-mindedly.

“Well, it might be that the pregnancy made her silly!” Skyler answered as he fed Carlos a spoonful of chocolate-banana pudding.

When Scarlett heard that, she just stared at him and said, “What do you know about being pregnant anyway, Skyler? Just let me be.”

“Francis, you