Liam’s POV
It’s nice seeing Brian off guard for once. That’s rare. Ever since I’ve known him, since we were just eleven-year-old kids in middle school, he’s always had this unshakable cool. Like nothing could touch him.
But lately? He’s been slipping.
Zillion and I came to a bitter conclusion a long time ago—our friend might just be heartless. Cold. Detached.
He used to pretend better when his mom was still alive, but after she passed? He just stopped trying altogether.
Back when we were all getting girlfriends, he didn’t. Instead, he turned to Mia—like some kind of twisted substitute for love.
She was willing, maybe even eager, to take him as he was: emotionally unavailable and deeply scarred. Mia saw him as her once-in-a-lifetime guy, the broken kind women think they can fix.
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