Michael Reese.
I had to go to Ryker’s place, given I still had a party to finish planning. I walked inside, and as Lord Edward said, Casey and Ryker didn’t seem to suspect anything. The former grinned my way creepily, wiggling her eyebrows and whatnot, saying.
“So?”
Not in a mood to humor her perverseness, I could feel my face contorting, ignoring her implicative question as I said. “Is everything ready?”
“Oh, someone wants to change the subject. That’s fine. I’ll just ask Hayden tomorrow at the party.”
I couldn’t look her in the eyes at the mention of Hayden. No matter how hard I tried to go through this, I kept dragging myself down at recalling the sad smile he had on. I only had to tolerate this for one day, but a part of me felt as if I would collapse and ruin everything before t
