Chapter 174

Lyra's POV

I didn't know what she meant by that but I surely was not interested in finding out. I turned to Philip who was at the moment glaring at Emily.

"Philip,"I called his name and in an instant, his gaze moved to me and he visibly softened, "we should leave".

Tristan hastily shook his head, he took a step and moved to stand in front of Philip, "why do you suddenly want to leave? It's my birthday dinner, surely it's all turning out to be a bag of shit, but it's still my birthday and he's still my best friend".

"You have no sort of respect for that friendship, you don't care about him". I said.

He frowned, "what makes you think your opinion is valid?"

"Tristan.."

"Surely we've had bad days but we're moving past that, right?" He nudged Philip slightly.

Philip looked like he agreed with what Tristan was saying. The look he had in his eyes told me so; that he was very much into this party, that he really wanted to spend some more time with Tristan.

And the way he looked at me like h