"We need to talk."
Two drops of sweat trickled down my forehead when both girls dropped their argument and looked over.
And as childish as it might be, I outright refused to even look at my ex.
Cassie being here was just an irrelevant coincidence. And I wasn't going to treat it as anything more than just that.
Turning my eyes over to Irene instead, I looked as deeply into her face as I could without actually staring. I searched for even the tiniest hint that my long-standing worry, theory, and belief could be wrong.
A single clue that I was actually wrong.
But, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't see a thing.
'So I was right.'
I closed my eyes and sighed only to take a long breath later.
"Wait, we?" Irene jumped a little, her anger, annoyance, and whatever else she was acting out subsided by a genuine surprise. "Not with…"
