Collision on Ice
“Everyone, witness this, Roselle Adair, formerly sworn enemy of Jace Whitfield, is officially on defense duty now.”
The room laughed, good natured, and I felt my face go even warmer, aware of Jace still watching me from across the room with an expression I genuinely could not decode, something between amusement and a question neither of us seemed ready to actually ask out loud, and I had absolutely nothing useful to say in response to any of it.