AUSTIN'S POV
I'm not usually the quiet one in the group.
I'm the one who throws in sarcastic comments at the right time, who calls out people's crap, who always knows how to lighten a tense room. But today, sitting at that brunch table watching Ashley talk about him, I couldn't find a single word to say that didn't taste like regret in my mouth.
She was glowing. God, she was glowing.
There was that spark in her eyes that I hadn't seen in a while…maybe never. And when she talked about him, it was like all of the walls she had built after Ryan had all fallen away. Like that. Like they had never been there to start with.
And I sat there pretending I was fine. I wasn't.
She said she was officially in a relationship. I felt my stomach twist the moment those words left her lips. I should
