Excuses (2)

"Am I going to another room to speak with my mother or is everyone else going to leave now that I am here?" Alessandra softly spoke with Mark.

"I mentioned you wanted to speak with her alone, but they insisted on remaining together," Mark replied. 

"Then I would like for Edgar to come inside in the next five minutes," Alessandra said. It wasn't fair for her to be alone while her mother had her two other daughters beside her. Wanting no one around to interrupt her conversation with her mother was out the window.

Alessandra was not looking for a fight today but she wanted Edgar in the room at some point in case it felt like she was getting nowhere with the three people in the room.