The lights were as bright as day. That seductive mole on Adrian Shaw's cold, pale collarbone was unusually clear, jumping straight into Serena Stanton's eyes and flickering there.
Ever since she left the Grant Family, she'd been replaying everything that had happened between them in her mind.
That unexpected reunion in the Portryn hotel, both pretending not to know each other, yet their masks ripped off so quickly at the Quinn Family gathering.
She hated the messy, desperate Serena of the past—including the Serena who loved Adrian Shaw. She hated that too, so she kept trying to draw a line between them.
He misunderstood that she was with Jasper Grant; she didn't deny it like before, just let him assume it was true.
But he insisted on being her "hat brother," practically imperial in his dominance.
