Chapter 28. Blast from Hell

“Oh no, not her.” Kayla heard Lucy Broody mutter but wasn’t too sure whether she’d heard her right.

They were sitting in a really huge dining room, with assorted scrumptious meals laid out in front of them. Kayla had never seen so many assorted dishes on one dining table before. It was simply amazing. She was seated between Dean and Michael, the latter having insisted he wanted her by him. Everyone was busily eating and conversing. Alan, the brother who came before the twins, was cracking them up with stories about a village he and some other doctors had gone to do volunteer work a month earlier. Everyone was having fun. Even the help came to stand at the table to laugh at the stories.

Then they all heard the high-pitched voice of a female call out, “Hi Broodys.”

Kayla felt Dean stiffen beside her just as his mother passed the ‘oh no’ comment. Tyler and Sam rolled their eyes just as Josh and Ron groaned. Alan went right on talking and Jean didn’t react at all. She