Ruined By My Brother-In-Law

Anna wished she was somewhere else right now.

She glanced at the figure beside her and her nose scrunched up.

Her phone rang just then, her younger sister's smiling face filling the screen.

"Is everything okay, Lena?" She asked the moment the call connected.

"Yes! When are you getting here?"

Anna side-eyed the figure behind the wheel. "We happen to be crawling like a snail right now, but I'm sure I'll be there soon, okay? Go have fun, and big sis will roll in soon with the cannon."

The call ended and Anna leaned back into the passenger seat with a sigh.

Jason's deep voice cut in, low and smug, "Still like telling people what to do, huh?"

Anna turned away toward the window, deciding she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of an answer this time. She wasn't sure what spoiled the night more: sitting in a car en route to the venue of her sister's wedding after-party with the most annoying jerk she knew, or the fact that he was clearly enjoying her torture.

Jason Knight.

The groom's annoying brother and best man, which meant as her sister's Chief bridesmaid, Anna had been stuck with him these past few days!

She didn't know a fate more horrible, nor a person more maddeningly unpredictable.

The first time they'd met, she was sure he hated her guts. His big grin for his baby brother had dropped the instant he saw her. He'd spent the rest of that day offering nothing but cold shoulders and dissecting stares, as if she were some kind of lab rat.

Then the next day at rehearsal?

A full 180.

He'd kissed her hand like a gentleman, called her his favourite bridesmaid, and showed up with chocolate bars like a lovesick fool.

And then today at the wedding, he'd ignored her almost completely, entertaining every other bridesmaid and lady who so much as blinked his way. Charming, handsome, magnetic, and she hated that she'd noticed.

She'd decided that Jason Knight was the kind of man she wanted nothing to do with.

But here she was, in his car.

"Quieten your brain, spitfire." Amusement rang in Jason's voice. "I can see the smoke through your nostrils and ears."

"Pretty sure yours is frozen from the alcohol and cringy flirts," Anna shot back, glaring at him from across the console.

Jason's eyes left the road momentarily, a smirk on his lips. "Were you watching me, Princess?"

"What- why would I watch you? And stop calling me those silly names you give your girls."

He chuckled. "You didn't have an issue with it the other day, Sweetheart."

Anna tried to ignore the heat creeping up her neck slowly. "Ever heard the phrase, for peace to reign?"

Jason frowned, rubbed his jaw in thought. "Enlighten me, if you would, Your highness."

"I tolerated your presence and bawl-worthy attempts at flirting because it's my sister's wedding. Curb it."

Jason pulled into the hotel for the after party just then and