No weird silence loaded with hidden meaning.
Just physical chemistry.
I looked away from them instinctively.
And somehow my eyes found Mason again.
Big mistake.
Because he was already looking at me.
Not at Luca.
At me.
That changed the entire feeling instantly.
MASON
She looked at me like she’d forgotten I was there for a second.
Then remembered all at once.
That hit harder than it should’ve.
The rooftop noise blurred again.
People moving around us.
Music changing.
None of it mattered.
Because Rowan looked unsettled now.
Not because of Luca.
Because of whatever she just realised watching him with someone else.
And somehow—
that made something ugly unclench in my chest.
Jace noticed immediately.
“Oh my God,” he said quietly. “You’re relieved.”
“I’m not.”
“You absolutely are.”
I ignored him.
But he was right.
And that annoyed meimmediately.
ROWAN
