Friendship betrayal

Jace had just finished with a meeting and was returning home after a long day of business work, when his mind darted back to Ava and he decided to call her, with an assurance that she would be planning to return the next day. Unsure that he should call her that late at night, he decided to call by dawn when he knew she would be awake already.

He sauntered across the corners of his living room in the early hours of the morning in his bathrobe, and hoped in his heart that she would pick up the call. A grin stretched across his lips the moment she finally picked up her call, and he cleared his throat after stretching the phone far away from him before asking how she was.

However, the loud sounds of her choking sobs when she finally spoke after taking a few seconds, hit his ears like a wave of anxiety that washed over his mind and engulfed him in a torrent of worry and unease.

"Ava. What is wrong? Why are you crying?" He asked with so much worry in his heart as a knot formed in the pit o