CHAPTER 15

AVA POV

I got up the following morning after my night out with Wesley, feeling excited, nervous and anxious all at the same time. Wesley was the only thing that had me feeling excited and that got me out of bed that morning.

But when I got up, it was early. Everyone else was still asleep so I got changed into a white loose fitting shirt, gray track pants, socks and shoes.

I left my room and I started jogging around the perimeter of the yard, passing all of the guards along the way but not paying any attention to any of them.

The whole time, my mother’s face was playing on my mind. That photo that I received of my mother was running through my head.

I had memorized it and I was thinking about it non-stop. Was there anything in the photo that could give away her location? But the more I thought about it, the more I came up empty. I didn’t have a damn clue where she could be.

I ran the perimeter of the yard three times, and by the time I got back to the house I was panting and sw