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Chapter 80 The nanny chapter fourty three

  He glanced up the stairs and almost jumped back in astonishment when he saw a dark, dour figure descending the stairs, looking almost unearthly in the dim light and out of the blue.

  Grandmother Adams.

  “What are you doing here, young man?” she demanded when she reached the bottom. She peered up and down his body with obvious disdain.

  “I’m here to see Efua” he explained. “My other daughter is getting some flowers from the garden.”

  “I see.” She sniffed and looked up and down his body again. “And this is what you feel is appropriate attire for paying a visit to our house?”

  Jason glanced down at himself again. “We came here in a hurry and didn’t have time to change. I’m sure she’ll understand.”Kike and Jennifer soon came in from the garden with an enormous bunch of miscellaneous flowers, the bouquet almost half the size of Jennifer herself. Jason felt a flicker of hope, telling himself he’d just take the flowers and run upstairs.