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Her gaze slid from us to survey the dimly lit room, a knot forming between her brows. “Where’s Becca?
Grey dropped the empty packets he was holding and scratched an imaginary itch on the back of his head. “Sheuh…she got kinda pissed at us and took off.”
Ava Jade sat bolt upright, the color draining from her face again. Her eyes went unfocused as the sudden movement made her dizzy. “Well go andfind her,” she scolded, back to her fiery self already.
Corv gave Grey a nod, and he leaned in to kiss Ava Jade on her head before leaving. “I’ll be right back.”
“You should lie back down,” Corvus said, but Ava Jade just looked at him like he’d grown a second head.
“I’m good.” She winced as she tried to move her injured arm and peered up at me through her lashes. “I’ll take a drink, though.”
I rounded the bar and pulled a bottle of water from the small fridge beneath, handing it to her.
“Notwhat I meant,” she said with an eye roll, but took the bottle and drank half, shivering again. “I think I drank enough lake water to be hydrated for the next year.”
Corvus’ knuckles turned white where he gripped the counter, but he relaxed them when he caught me looking.
He was doing a shit job of pretending he didn’t care.
Grey told me he and Ava Jade had finally fucked.
It wasn’t exactly the kind of news I wanted after searching for endless hours and coming up empty handed in the search for Ava Jade’s stalker, but that’s life.
And Corvus deserved happiness just as much as any of us. More so than I did for sure.
Ava Jade passed me the other half of her water. “Drink,” she demanded. “You look like shit and smell like a distillery.”
“Shall I get you a mirror?” I joked, earning myself a glare, but I took the water, knowing a level head might prevent a few deaths tonight.
The door creaked open behind us, and Grey returned, a bit breathless. “The whole place is cleared out,” he said. “I don’t see Becca anywhere.”
“What?” Ava Jade demanded, growling as she stepped down from the bar and almost fell flat on her face, grimacing as she gripped her right knee.
“You need to sit the fuck down,” Corvus growled, hopping the bar to grab her from behind, picking her up off her feet despite her protests.
“Let go!”
“No. You calm the fuck down andsit,and then I’ll let go.”
Ava Jade, too tired to fight him, slumped, defeated in his arms as he carried her to the couch and tugged his phone from his back pocket. “Here,” he said and handed it to Ava Jade. “Call her.”
“Already tried that,” Grey said, and Corvus sent him a scathing look.
Ava Jade dialed her friend, tensing with each ring that went unanswered. She didn’t leave a voicemail, instead hanging up to switch to messenger. She thumbed out a text to her friend and then waited.
Corvus crouched to her eye-level. “We can—”
“Shh.”
“She probably just—”
“Shh.”
The phone pinged in Ava Jade’s hand a second later, and she sighed as they read the message on the screen.
“She’s okay,” she said, typing out a less hurried message. “She’s with her boyfriend.”
“She has a boyfriend?” I found myself asking, doubtful. A fuck buddy maybe. Rebecca Hart didn’t seem the type to be pinned down.
