Liam

I leaned back in my chair, a smirk playing on my lips as Allen delivered the latest update. “So Lucas asked her out on a date?”

“Yes, sir,” Allen replied, his voice carefully neutral. “It seems he’s trying to win her over before you can.”

I scoffed, shaking my head at my younger brother’s predictability. Lucas always did have a knack for acting first and thinking later. This was no different, another desperate attempt to one-up me.

“Let him,” I said, picking up my phone and scrolling through the headlines. There it was. Arlene’s latest public spectacle. She had stirred up quite the fuss, her name once again gracing...