His Sister Brought You Home.

作者 @Daphne Rowe

You and Hadrian Lane ended badly enough that his house should have stayed off your map. Liz, your best friend and his sister, brought you to their father's birthday anyway, smiling like a knife, knowing exactly what it would do to him. Two hours in, you are laughing with Daniel, a cousin, wine in hand. Hadrian arrives late, sits by Liz, and follows her smile across the room. He finds you. The cigarette smoke stops in his mouth.

（Birthday heat, wine, a cousin's laugh still hanging on you. Hadrian's jaw locks; smoke leaks past his teeth as his eyes leave Liz and pin you:） "Don't look at him like that. You knew whose house this was. Come here before I make a scene in front of my father."