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“It’s about time.” Conner smiled. “Say hi to your cousin Grayson, Bella.” He took her arm and lifted it in the air.
“Hi, baby girl.” I smiled as I waved at her.
“What about me?” Conner asked.
“What about you? You’re invisible now. All we see is your sweet baby girl.” I grinned.
He shot me a look, and we all laughed.
“Is my brother still at the hospital?” Jackson asked.
“Yeah. He got pulled into an emergency surgery just as I was leaving.” I pulled out my phone and looked at it—still nothing from Ava.
As we all were talking and drinking our beers, I kept glancing at my phone.
“Are you expecting a call or something?” Gabriel asked.
“I think I fucked up.” I sighed.
“With whom, when, and where?” Nathan laughed.
“Ava. I told her that I'd call her that night when I drove her home last week. I didn’t, and I sent her a couple of text messages today, and she’s not responding.” I tipped the bottle to my lips.
“Since when are you bothered by that?” Gabriel’s brows furrowed.
“I don’t know.” I shrugged.
“Bro, we talked about this and her,” he said.
“Talked about what?” Sam asked.
“The fact that Ava lied to him from the start,” Gabriel spoke.
“Grayson, Gabriel is right. It’s best you stay away from her,” Simon said. “Listen, man. There’s something you should know.”
“What is it?” I stared at him.
“I met her two years ago, and at that time, she said her name was Kate. A domestic dispute was called into the station, and I just happened to be in the same apartment building on another case, so they asked if I could check it out. When I went up to the apartment and knocked on the door, she answered. When I stepped inside, her boyfriend was lying on the ground in rough shape and barely conscious. He was bleeding, broken ribs, and beaten up pretty badly. The furniture in the place was practically destroyed.”
“What?” My brows furrowed.
“She said it was self-defense because he was beating her.”
“Did she have marks on her to prove it?” I asked.
“Yeah. Unfortunately, she did. He wouldn’t press charges, and neither would she, so there was nothing we could do. When I asked her why she didn’t want to press assault charges, she said that he’d learned his lesson and they were never seeing each other again. I don’t know, but the dude seemed scared of her.”
“And she told you her name was Kate?” I asked.
“Yeah, she did. She has some mad ninja skills or something because that guy she beat up was pretty big.”
“But that night at the restaurant,” I said. “She acted like she’d never met you.”
“To be fair, she didn’t seem like the same person I met two years ago until I saw her coming out of the bathroom.”
“What do you mean?” Sam asked.
“I confronted her, called her Kate, and she said it was nice to see me again. But something’s been bothering me since that night, and I can’t seem to shake it off.”
