“Lovely.”
“It’s okay, Ty. It’s quite a compliment that she thinks so highly of me.”
“She definitely thinks the world of you,” he muttered. “And she isn’t shy to admit it or remind me of it on a regular basis.”
Shannon offered him a sympathetic smile. “I thought you’d appreciate that bit of knowledge. At least your mom likes me. Imagine how frustrating it’d be if she didn’t. Instead of encouraging you, she’d be hindering you.”
“You say that like you have experience with a boyfriend’s mother who didn’t like you. I thought Chris’s mother adored you.”
“I wouldn’t use the word adored. She liked me well enough, and I don’t think she would’ve had a problem with me marrying her son, but I never got the feeling that she wanted me in her family like your parents do. She was ambivalent, you coul
