LILA'S POV
The room had gone completely silent.
It was the kind of heavy, suffocating quiet that makes your ears ring. Even the soft acoustic music that had been playing in the background of Parker’s living room seemed to fade into nothingness, completely swallowed by the tension.
Sunny stood confidently right in the middle of the room. She looked like she owned the place, standing tall under the warm overhead lights, completely unbothered by the fact that she had just crashed a private gathering.
Her eyes never left me.
A sharp, knowing smile played on her glossed lips. It was the kind of smile that wasn’t friendly—not even a little bit. It was designed to intimidate, to mark territory, and to make me feel like an outsider in my own life.
She slowly folded her arms across her chest,
