Chapter Six
It wasn’t until Mia rested her left hand on the escalator’s handrail as it transported her out of Oxford Circus Tube station that she realised she’d forgotten to take off the engagement ring. s**t! She hadn’t been planning to tell her friends about Elias’s proposal today, especially since his parents didn’t even know yet—not to mention Thomas and Alex. Then she remembered they didn’t know about Elias, full stop, never mind how quickly their relationship was progressing. They didn’t know very much of anything, in fact, since they’d barely spoken since Edward’s death. It hadn’t been a deliberate thing, but now Mia thought about it, perhaps she’d been keeping them—and her other friends—at arm’s length since losing her father, needing to grieve privately, and in her own way. And i
