Chapter XXXII ۞ Thays ۞ Part V

"SHE DEFINITELY IS PERFECT FOR HIM. They suit each other like no one else would. Me and my family are really happy to have in our family now. And we couldn't imagine Aaron getting someone better than she is. You really are lucky to have a daughter like her, Mrs. Rossetti!"

"It's Maria Beatriz, but you just call me Auntie Bea, dear. It's more comfortable. We'll be family after all," hah, if they knew the truth…

"Then auntie Bea it is. But what did you think about my brother? My mom was quite anxious about it," oh? But we told her before.

Mamãe blushed, "He's amazing. We fell in love with him on our first call. He seems to be male version of Manu, and he can deal with her and that terrible temper of hers and silver tongue just fine. They also look perfect together. Not to mention that I could feel their chemistry across the phone screen," she's overlooking it.

"Mamãe, don't say that. I took my temper and my silver tongue from you, you know that!"

She scoffed, "And that's precisely why I have the right to complain about. You may have taken our beauty and brains, but you also took the worse of mine and your pai personalities, Emmanuelle. Not to mention that ego of yours, that you took from your paternal nonna. Really hard to deal with!"

I gasped, feeling my face burn and the boys chuckling, "I'm not hard to deal with, mamãe."

"Oh, no? But you and son-in-law used to hate each other, did you not? Always fighting. I remember you cursing the hell out of that handsome boy."

"Mamãe! Aaron is as annoying as I am, okay? And he was the one who messed with me first."

He scoffed, "You shouldn't have thrown your drink on me, to begin with!"

"It was accidental!"

"Accidental my foot. You probably did it on purpose to mess with me."

"I didn't even knew your arrogant ass."

"As if you weren't arrogant!"

"I am not saying I'm not. But you are definitely more arrogant and condescending than I am."

"No, I am not, Thays!"

"Yes, you are, Aaron!" I insisted annoyed.

"See, Graham? They are also both stubborn. I can't help but imagine how hard they fought their prides to swallow their shit and be together."

"I think it must have been their overbearing chemistry and physical attraction that was too strong to be ignored, auntie Bea. You should have seen what I saw when they first parked on the restaurant. They stayed locked in the car for about an hour doing unholy things in there," I gasped and my glare went to him. "What? I'm not lying!"

Mamãe giggled excitedly, "Oh, tell me more. Were they already making me a grandchild? I only have three and they are only from two of my children. I didn't have 10 children to only have 3 grandchildren. The math doesn't add up. And as my 3rd daughter, and in a very good age, I'm waiting for Manu to give me more."

"Mamãe, por Deus, hold it together. That's personal. And I'm the 7th, damn it. Ask for the first six to give you grandchildren, not me. I'm too young for that!"

"Manu, darling, in your age, I was already a mother!"

"And that's on you, mamãe. Besides, you and papai married young and had us one after the other. If you had used condoms that could have been avoided or delayed!"

She gasped, "Don't say that, Thays Emmanuelle Rossetti. I was overjoyed when I had you all, and I would still do the same if I had the chance to go back in time. And don't talk about that, I'm your mãe, girl. If I hadn't kept having you and your siblings, you wouldn't be born. Be grateful that we didn't try to stop after two triplets pregnancies."

"That's because you always wanted lots of kids, mamãe. And it wasn't as if any of us were planned, you were just overly fertile and this accident happened."

Mamãe glared at me, "It wasn't an accident!"

"The moment that the pregnancies weren't planned, they were all accidental. Accidental meaning they were an accident."

She growled, "Ugh, why are you like this? That's why you were always the troublemaker between all of your siblings. You are too much, Emmanuelle!"

I grinned, "Of course, I am too much compared to my siblings, mamãe. All their beauty, intelligence, annoying habits, and good traits were divided in three while in your belly. While I took it all alone, since I wasn't a twin or a triplet, thankfully. That's why I'm the genius and the most beautiful out of the 10 of us." Aaron and Graham giggled to that.

"That's why you are the most egocentric, annoying, arrogant, and overbearing out of the 10 of you as well," she mocked. "While their good and bad traits were all divided in three, yours were all tripled. You have all the good and especially all the bad ones!"

I rolled my eyes, "Ha, ha, ha. Even papai makes better jokes than you, mamãe."

"That's because I'm not joking, filha," and she had the audacity to let a wide amused grin take over her lips. "But are you okay, Princesa?" Her face softened altogether. "You aren't having problems eating again, are you? Are you staying healthy? You aren't overworking yourself again, right? Is Aaron taking good care of you?"

I felt suddenly conscious and uncomfortable, "I am fine. Don't worry. I'm perfectly fine. And he's taking care of me too, so, relax, mamãe. I can handle myself."

"You said that before and look what happened?! I'll be taking with your assistant again. And don't make her lie to keep me from scolding you, got it, Thays Emmanuelle?!"

Sigh, "Okay, mamãe."

"And don't close your face like that. You should talk about those things. Talk it out. Don't bottle it up. You always had that terrible habit. Aaron, my dear, come near," he popped up again, but this time he was weirdly serious. "Take care of her, okay? She's stubborn and doesn't tell anyone when she's hurting physically, emotionally, and mentally. As she lives in the other side of the world just to stay away from us and our nagging, I'm trusting you with this."

"Don't worry, mother-in-law, I'll take care of her." Hah, as if he will. Besides, I don't need that. I'm perfect alone.

"That soothes my heart. And, Manu, you hasn't been bleed-" let's stop right there.

"The food is here, mamãe. Talk to you later. Go to sleep, it's too late in Brazil. Rest. I'm fine, so stop overthinking my healthy, and focus on yourself. On nonnas and in papai. Go pamper your grandchild, I'm 27, come on, I can take care of myself. Te amo!"

"I know what you are doing, Emmanuelle!"

"Bye, mamãe!" Then I hang up, feeling a pressure all over my body, and the two Vaughn-Solomon brothers intense gazes on me.

Mamãe said too much. Too much!

How annoying.