Chapter 16

Morning Mrs Bolton."Axle said in his sleepy voice. He looked at Ember as she slowly opened her eyes.

"Morning. How long have you been staring at me?"She asked.

"I don't know, maybe longer than half an hour."He said. He looked at the clock that was on the nightstand and he noticed that it was 7:35am. "You are late."He said.

"Late?"She asked.

"Well according to the rules which I am sure you weren't told, the women of this family are expected to be downstairs at 7am sharp."Je said.

"What? And you are only telling me this now? You know your dad doesn't like me one bit, you could have at least told me this."She said sitting up from the fastly. She was starting to panic, it was her first day at the house as a daughter-in-law and the last thing that she wanted was to make a bad impression of herself.

"Sorry, my mom is the one who was supposed to tell you, not me."He said. "Forget about it, let's go take a shower so that we can join everyone for breakfast."He said. He got up from the bed a