Ash stared at Burke, not caring that his parents sat a few feet away on the other side of the table. His mom had gasped and she might have said something, but Ash couldn’t process it.
Burke blinked back at her, his expression as charged as her whole body. She really wished they could escape for a minute and talk.
This is your fault, a voice whispered. She’d brought up how they were serious, when Burke was trying to downplay the relationship. Maybe she’d lost her mind. Or maybe she was tired of pretending to be his girlfriend, all while pretending not to like him.
This is your faultBoth charades were exhausting.
She knew she didn’t like that he’d been about to say they weren’t that serious, and she’d blurted out some ridiculous thing about a phantom engagement conversation.
“I just nee
