An impromptu hospital visit- I
In the evening, as Adrian had just left the house, Joyce moved upstairs to enjoy some quiet time on the terrace before it would be taken by Charles.
To her surprise, she found him there, and he was smoking.
After working for him for almost an year and living with him for two, Joyce had gotten to know about a few of his habits, and that was, he might have done drugs, and he might actively drink alcohol, but he never smoked.
No matter how stressful the situation might be in the office, Charles had never known to be smoking under any condition. She was told by Yolanda, someone who worked with Adrian that the elder brother, for sure, smoked a lot, especially in stressful situations. But Charles never did.
Normally, she would have left him alone, but she was his potential sister-in-law, so she felt the need to assert her dominance on him or just on the basis of their friendship, ask him how he was doing.