Zacharias chuckled at that. His mother need a hug? What the woman needed was for her son to be married and have a child so she wouldn't have to losing all the work she had put into further building the family name. Except she might be getting that and the thought only made him sick. He leaned back on the stone wall, not trusting himself on his feet.
Merlin. If Marietta was pregnant it was certainly one of the worst things that could happen. And if she wasn't, then he was probably going kill her for lying to him. There was twisted and then there was cruel.
Scrubbing his face he looked back over to see Justin joining the growing group of people. Part of him really hoped that Justin did try to hug his mother if only to see the reaction on her face both now and later when she realized who that was.