A Love Mess: Who loves who?
Arlen finally hit the power button, plunging the apartment back into silence, the television screen going dark and reflecting his own drained expression back at him from across the room.
He sat there for a long moment, breath still uneven, processing the strange, unwelcome intrusion of it all. It shouldn't have surprised him, really—his family's name carried enough weight locally that anything touching it tended to attract attention, and the engagement itself had been publicized enough. Especially since he was engaged to the heir of St Buildings and Constructions.
But he hadn't expected it this fast. Hadn't expected the particular violation of having something so raw, so private, turned into