Aiden turned his head, the bone-chilling coldness in his eyes vanishing. "What's wrong?" he asked, his voice gentle.
"I'm hungry. Let's eat."
"Okay."
The look Aiden Shaw gave Laura Lowell was one of utter adoration.
Iris Irving, sitting nearby, saw it too, and jealousy churned unpleasantly within her.
She curved her lips into a radiant smile, but her delicate voice was laced with schadenfreude. "Laura, why aren't you saying hello to Austin Thorne? I know you two broke up, but there's no need to act like strangers, is there?"
Laura Lowell hadn't known Iris Irving before and had no idea she was good friends with Austin Thorne.
After all, her relationship with Austin had been purely to appease her mother; she knew nothing about his social circle, let alone his life.
Laura Lowell's gaze was calm and sharp as she looked at Iris Irving, not even bothering to feign a smile. "I've always made a point of ignoring unpleasant people and things."
