"I just hope you and Julian Rhodes get along well. Even though you and Jonah Morgan aren't related by blood, everyone knows you're like siblings. If you two end up together, people will criticize you. Your uncle will be really angry too."
Joyce Leighton's current thoughts are complicated.
If you say she really likes Scarlett Xavier, well, not quite.
If you say she dislikes Jonah Morgan, well, also not quite; she usually treats Jonah well.
But if Scarlett and Jonah were to be together, she'd really not be pleased.
Anyway, she doesn't want to see them together.
She always feels it would be an embarrassing thing that would make her lose face.
In the future, when people talk about it, they'll remember her stepson and her own daughter got together. Who knows what they'll think.
...
Scarlett glanced at Joyce but didn't bother with her.
Just then, someone walked in from outside, "Is Jonah here?"
It was a woman, looking about the same age as Joyce.
