Mira Reckoning: Love, Lies and Inheritance
she continued, like I hadn’t spoken, “before he even registered I was here, his eyes went to you first.”
“You’re reading into things.”
“I am not reading into anything,” she said firmly, “I am telling you what I saw with my own two functioning eyes.” She tightened her grip on my arm slightly, “Stop pretending, Mira.”
I looked at her, “Pretending what?”
“That you don’t feel anything,” she said, straightforward and simple, no decoration on it, “because it is becoming genuinely embarrassing to watch, and I say that as someone who loves you completely.”
I opened my mouth.