Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 983

Brody was not showered with envious gazes as he would have expected. Leia gently pinched his arm and said with a smile, "Brody, my parents don't like coffee."

"Why?" Brody was not embarrassed as he continued to elaborate, "Appreciating coffee is a necessary skill in the upper circles of society. Every party or gathering must have coffee and wine. You'll need to know how to appreciate coffee so that you won't be looked down on. Also, one should prepare some premium coffee beans at home to serve guests."

As soon as he finished speaking, the living room fell into an awkward silence.

Leia pinched him again. She was getting nervous.

Jack hated people who loved to show off, while Brody was very fond of showing off. She thought that he had not done that for some time, so why would his old habits return?

It would not have been a problem if he showed off in front of her friends, but they were in front of her parents now…

Leia discreetly kicked him to stop him from speaking.

Brody impatiently pushed Leia's hand away, feeling a little irritated by the pinching and kicking. "I'll bring over some Blue Mountain coffee beans on my next visit, Mr. and Mrs. Norman. Once you try it, you won't want to drink tea or other types of coffee anymore."

"It's fine, Mr. Hilton. We don't sleep very well, and the doctor said that we shouldn't drink coffee too often." Queenie rejected Brody's offer once again. She sounded gentle but insistent.

Leia was surprised. 'Is that so? When did that happen?'

Brody was already cursing inwardly when Jack and Queenie had rejected his offer twice. He thought that they did not know how to appreciate the finer things in life.

His gaze fell on the cross-stitch that Bianca had placed on the couch opposite him.

He decided to flaunt his family's wealth again so that they would feel grateful that they would be getting such a rich son-in-law.

"Did you just take that down?" He pointed at the cross-stitch with his chin.

Jack was already very displeased. Brody was frivolous and disrespectful. Was that how he should treat his elders?

He did not plan to stop Leia from being together with Brody. If she really liked him, he would want her to marry him so that he could announce to others that whatever she did had nothing to do with the Normans.

He was beginning to change his mind after seeing that man's character.

Leia saw that her parents did not seem too pleasant and thought that they were unhappy about Brody's showing off and his tone.

To ease the tension, she smiled and said, "That's a cross-stitch, right? I've never seen it at home. Did you buy it, Dad?"

"Tch," Brody scoffed, "Who would buy that nowadays, or hang it in their house? That's so old-fashioned and cheap. Horses? How tacky."

Jack was livid when he heard that. How high and mighty must the Hilton family be for that young man to say that?

He slammed his teacup angrily. It landed on the table with a loud bang.

The people in the living room were shocked.

"I love horses and handicrafts like that. What about it?" Jack said while staring at Brody.

"He doesn't mean that, Dad," Leia tried to explain.

"That's enough. Our house is full of cheap and tacky stuff, and we're an embarrassment to him. Go get the toolbox and hang the cross-stitch on the wall," Jack ordered the caretaker.

The caretaker nodded and went to the storeroom.