Liam
I leaned back in my chair, a smirk playing on my lips as Allen delivered the latest update. “So Lucas asked her out on a date?”
“Yes, sir,” Allen replied, his voice carefully neutral. “It seems he’s trying to win her over before you can.”
I scoffed, shaking my head at my younger brother’s predictability. Lucas always did have a knack for acting first and thinking later. This was no different, another desperate attempt to one-up me.
“Let him,” I said, picking up my phone and scrolling through the headlines. There it was. Arlene’s latest public spectacle. She had stirred up quite the fuss, her name once again gracing the society pages.
The buzz was that she had agreed to go on a date with her ex-betrothed, her sister’s present betrothed.
Of course, she had. Not because of Lucas, b
