The Wife I Never Met
Chapter 48

Maggie then pulled Ciara to the sofa, so that they could talk freely and comfortably.

” tell me what have you been up to, I hear you are a screen writer now.”

“Well after I moved out from home, I did film studies and majored in creative writing. That was when I started writing novels and now added screen writing.”

“I’m sure that’s a fun job to do. All you need to do is being creative.”

“you know me Aunty Mag, I love writing”….

They were now in their own world and had forgotten that there were other people in the room who were still waiting for an introduction. Liam like everyone else in the room was surprised at how well his mom got along with his wife, although he too wanted to know how they knew each other he kept quiet and waited for them to finish catching up, besides he was able to piece together some of the things that were said.

Since Maggie knew Ciara’s parents, it was obvious that their relationship go way back to when Ciara was still young.

” Aheem”

Not everyone was as patient as Liam, his younger brother Zane didn’t want to be left out of the conversation and also want to be introduced to this beautiful sister in-law of his.

“Hey hey hey, that’s enough now. We get it that you guys know each other, but mom don’t you think you need to finish the introduction first, and maybe you can add how you met.”

Only then did Ciara and Maggie stop talking. Maggie wasn’t at all embarrassed by her son’s statement, indeed she had forgotten about them and was fully focused on Ciara whom she had not seen since she was very young and now that she has met her she came to understand a lot of things. She now understood the reason why Ciara wanted to keep things private. Firstly with the profile of the two families, if it was exposed even her relationship with her parents would be dug out. Secondly Ciara has always been a hard worker and never had she seen Ciara using her privileges to get ahead, even when she was in school, so Maggie understood that Ciara wanted to progress in her career without using the Jones’ surname to get ahead.

“I’ll leave the introductions to Liam as her husband..”

When the husband word dropped, everyone in the room was shocked, the Liam they knew was single and would never look at a woman in that manner. So how did he find this woman and when did they get married. Just yesterday they thought he was a cassanova and today he turns out to be a man of his household.

They moved their eyes from Maggie to Liam in expectations, what they had forgotten was that their brother was not one to explain himself. He never liked to explained his actions, unless he’s explaining to his parents or his wife.

” This is my wife Ciara, please respect her.” , and then when on to mention each and every one in the room to Ciara so that she could be familiar with them. Azzy Liam’s teenage sister was the only one who stood up and welcomed her with a hug, while the others only gave her a warm smile from where they were seated.

Immediately after he was done with his introductions, Liam’s father George who wasn’t a man of many words called him to his study.

He then turned around and walked away, Liam followed behind him. He wasn’t worried about anyone picking on Ciara as he had seen his mom’s reaction and knew that she would take care of her.

He then knocked on the slightly opened door of the study, and then walked in and sat on a chair opposite his father’s. Instead of saying anything Geoge took out a bottle of whiskey and two glasses from the cabinet behind him and poured out some of the whiskey in the glasses and handed one silently to Liam. He then leaned back to his chair and sipped on some whiskey in his glass with his eyes fixated on his son. It was as if he was studying him, trying to figure something out about him. After a couple of minutes of silence George finally spoke.

” Since when do you do keep thing from us, why didn’t you tell us you wanted to get married?”

” It’s not like that dad. We were going to inform you, just not now.”

“just not now? So when were you planning on tell us, is it on my death bed, or at my grave site?”.

” OK now I think you are exaggerating it, we were going to tell you guys once we are settled. But now you already know. “

” tell me, how am I exaggerating, you will be the death of me I’m telling you.” George then laughed it off and moved on to questioning Liam about his relationship with Ciara, he wanted to find out how much his son loved her and if they were good for each other. They spoke for a while, they had even moved from the marriage topic and were now discussing about business related stuffed. Although it’s been a while since George been in an office or taken care of the family businesses his brain is still as sharp as it was when he was still in office.

Downstairs the family was setting up the table, Ciara was also helping out with bringing out the dishes from the kitchen. Since it was a family gathering all the servants were asked to leave as soon as they were done cooking and preparing for dinner.

Who ever said Ciara wasn’t worthy of becoming a Jones would be shocked or at least surprised when seeing how well she blended in with the family.

When they were done Azlea volunteered to call Liam and old Mr Jones in.