EZRAN’S POVJeanne had to thump my back while Charlyn silently handed me a glass of water, her lips pressed together like she was fighting very, very hard not to laugh.“N-no,” I wheezed, eyes watering. “No girlfriend.”“Are you sure?” Mom asked, far too innocently. “Because you’ve been eating more than you did when you first returned from Erik’s home.”I winced.“Was that obvious?”“Yes,” Charlyn muttered into her glass.I buried my burning face into my hands, silently praying for the floor to swallow me whole, while the rest of the table dissolved into laughter around me.If only they knew.“I don’t have a girlfriend,” I said again, louder this time, as if volume could somehow make the statement more convincing.Robert studied me for a long moment, the same unreadable expression he wore during business negotiations. “Alright.”“I mean it.”“I said alright, Ezran.”I whined. “You don’t believe me, right?”“I never said that either, son.”Jeanne snorted into her glass, earning a glare
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