I Hired My Neighbor to Be My Girlfriend, Then Fell in Love
"But nothing about this family is ever particularly easy, dear. You'll learn that soon enough, if you stick around long enough to find out."
The brunch that followed felt different from every dinner before it, lighter somehow, despite the residual tension still humming beneath the surface, conversation flowing more easily than it had even during their most convincing performances, and by the time they left that afternoon, Everly felt cautiously hopeful for the first time since the confession three days earlier, the fragile peace between them finally starting to feel less like a truce and more like the beginning of something sustainable.
It didn't last long.
Her phone buzzed as they were pull