31 May, Lake View Cafe, City K

As John and Bronwyn turned, they saw her parents standing close to them.?Before either of them could respond her father ground out in a low voice, "I arrive here, and find my supposedly smart daughter standing outside, wide open where a sniper could easily take her out."

Closing her eyes Bronwyn took a calming breath.?Here was not the time or place to angrily respond to her father, despite how tempting it was.?He had been getting to her all day, and now she had to sit through a meal with him, when it was obvious all he wanted to do was cause her trouble.?Her mother did not need that stress.?Once she calmed down from her immediate thought to react, Bronwyn opened her eyes before glancing at her watch and calmly saying "We were waiting for you to arrive before entering.?For some reason you are late."Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click #%!d(string=15095783406874805)/parents-meet-parents-(3)_%!d(string=51055692076862127) for visiting.

"So, what!?That is our prerogative."

"Dad! For once stop being like that," snapped Bronwyn.?It was clear to her that all her father wanted to do tonight was cause trouble.?Did he want to try and chase John away??That was not acceptable.?Unlike her past relationsh.i.p.s, if she was honest, she had dreamed of a bright happy future.?Her father, despite his efforts was not going to ruin that for her.

Taking some calming breaths, Bronwyn continued "Tonight, I am your daughter who has her fiancé with her and is about to introduce you to his parents.?Not a soldier that you command.?So be my father, not my commanding officer who will snap commands and have me obey of face the consequences.?And before you ask, John and I have not told his parents of my deployment or that you serve.?The former because they do not need to know anything other than I am a military lawyer and the latter, because I want you to be present when that information is revealed."

"You forget.."

"Enough," angrily came Linda Li.?"George she is right.?She is your daughter so stop being argumentative and treat her as such, otherwise you will not like the outcome."

Hearing this the only response from General Li was a quiet "Yes Dear."

"Good, now play nice tonight.?You can go back to being your usual military self when we return to the capital, but interfere with your daughter's marriage approval.."

"Hey, I have the final say as the head of her division.."

"You better not use that to upset her or else."

Seeing General Li, stop talking John said "Sir, you remember the comments in the statement from the President read out today..?"

"So?" came the somewhat tame response from General Li.

"He is a friend of my parents, and if you want to play games about the necessary approvals I will go way over your head."

"You are threatening me?"

"Not threatening you sir, but just telling you what will happen, if there is any information that has me believing that you interfered with the relevant approvals being granted.?I am not stupid, in knowing there will be challenges, simply because of my job, Bronwyn's posting and your position, but if you want to overly interfere in the process, I will have my parents speak to the president to take the process away from your interference."

"Trying to throw your weight around brother-in-law.."

"Who the hell invited you Xavier?"

"No one, but do you expect none of us will be around when our favourite niece.."

"Get it right Uncle Xavier, your only niece."

"Yes, little princess my only niece gets engaged."?Xavier moved over and gave Bronwyn a kiss before adding "Without any of us, we all know what you will do.?Attempt to intimidate and chase him away, without a care about how it impacts her."

Moving over, he gave Linda a kiss, and added "So we figured that you needed back-up sis, particularly after you asked us to arrange for the stones that you selected to be couriered here for the family tradition."

"And..?"

"We drew lots as to who would come.?Depending on how you look at it, either I won in that I get out of the capital to spend time with you and our future family, or as Robert and the boys all said I lost in that I had to come and deal with your husband.?Me, I think I won."

Shaking her head, Linda said "Sometimes I wonder about the lot of you.?Maybe I need to speak to my sisters-in-law and try and figure out ways to keep the lot of you busy.."

"Hey, I had to have the flight crew work hard to prevent the lot of them getting onto the corporate jet to come here.?They all wanted to be your back-up."

Shaking her head, Linda said "Let us go in and wait, because someone there is getting stressed out being here?"

"You blame me.?I wanted to go inside as soon as we arrived.?It is not good for you to be out in the night air."

"Still being overprotective George.?I am not fragile, just pregnant.?And there is no way that I want to stay at home in bed until I give birth.?All the doctor says is that I need to keep my stress levels low, do not over do things, eat appropriately, and attend the regular medical appointments.?He even approved me flying here for the ceremony.?As I have told you repeatedly your hovering and over-protectiveness is getting me stressed out.?As is watching you now, looking around worried that someone is about to target you when no-one knows that we are here."

Rather than waiting for the argument to start again, John opened the door, and ushered everyone in.?As they were being shown to the small private room, he had booked John quietly asked the staff if they could add one more chair to the table and show his parents in when they arrived.

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