Sophia’s P.O.V

“Jesus Christ!” I gasped, pressing my hand to my chest as my eyes landed on the two faces standing there. Vee, with her usual mischievous grin, and right beside her, of all people…Edmund Rayland, Nathan’s cousin, both of them looking at me like a pair of guilty teenagers caught sneaking into a movie.

Vee raised both her hands quickly, laughing a little too hard. “Sorry, Soph! Didn’t mean to scare you like that.”

I slapped her arm playfully, ...