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.

graceful one, scooted a bit towards the

look, and the calm

"Thanks, but no thanks."

off Marian's offer with a

quipped,

chomped down on her skewer, not caring if

didn't bite, just calmly stared into

help but steal a

looking her way, just kept his gaze fixed on

grabbed a drink someone handed

she said it, the bottle sailed towards

managed to catch the bottle one-handed as it flew past, tossing it to Don who was sitting nearby, without giving him a

help but look

at him. "If he's giving it to you,

at that, and glanced over at Sophia out of

to notice, her gaze shifting from the fire to her phone, already distancing herself from their

into the background, clearing the

and couldn't help but wonder if

face, eyes locked

buzzed with

on her screen caught Don's eye, and

at the

offered them an apologetic smile. "I

time, it was for

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