Chapter 177

Sophia played it cool, pretending not to catch the hint of sarcasm in his tone, and kept mum.

"Sorry."

Peeping her silence, Brandon murmured an apology, his voice soft.

He didn't mean to piss Sophia off, but her deliberate aloofness and calm somehow managed to poke at the beast inside him, stirring up a hidden rage.

Sophia cracked a small smile, not really sweating his snark from before.

The place was buzzing, and Marian couldn't quite make out their convo, but she wasn't one for sitting on the sidelines feeling out of the loop.

Grabbing some skewers that someone had passed over, she handed one to Sophia. "Have a kebab."

Then she tossed one over to Brandon. "Hey, grab a skewer, will ya?"

That kind of upfront vibe wasn't something Sophia ever brought to the table with Brandon.

Even back in high school, when she could let her hair down around him, the most she could muster was to sidle up to him with a skewer, cheeks puffed, asking shyly, "Want a kebab? There's some left."

No way she could match Marian's no-frills straightforwardness.

Sophia even had this sneaking suspicion that someone as straight-shooting as Marian was more Brandon's type.

The childhood sweetheart thing, the matching family backgrounds,—it all seemed like a match made in heaven.

No wonder both families were going nuts trying to play Cupid.

a bit towards the fire, ducking down so

look, and the calm

"Thanks, but no thanks."

brushed off Marian's offer with a quiet thanks, without taking the

quipped, "You're such

down on her skewer, not

calmly stared into

steal

wasn't looking her way, just kept his gaze fixed on

ribbing Brandon for being dull, still grabbed a drink someone handed her and called out to him. "Yo, want

said it, the bottle

her way, but still managed to catch the bottle one-handed as it

couldn't help but look over

she just giggled at him. "If he's giving it

chuckled, left it at that, and glanced over at

gaze shifting from the fire to

was intentionally fading into

these obvious details and couldn't help but wonder if Brandon did too, his

his poker face, eyes locked on the

buzzed

her screen caught Don's

to Sophia's phone, pausing at the blinking "Susan,"

them an apologetic smile. "I

time, it was for

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