"Lin-Lin, my love, will you marry me?"
For a moment, Eve could only gape at Xia, unable to form even a single thought. Across from her, Celina sat with even more dumbfounded and disbelieving expression. Even Kang dropped his smile, his eyes wide as saucers with astonishment.
The only person completely unsurprised with what was happening was sitting next to Eve and smiling.
She turned towards him so sharply she heard something popping in her neck, a singly silent question ringing through her mind. 'For how long did you know?'
'It wasn't my place to tell,' Victor's voice sounded in her head. He pointed with his eyes towards Celina and Xia, and Eve followed his gaze, too dazzled for anything else.
Celina, with her hands in her hair like she was a step away from pulling on it, fought to pull some words together with mediocre success. "W-what? Are you… really? B-but—"
Summer is the worst time of the year. Anyone who says otherwise had been brainwashed.