Chapter Forty-Three

Mikhail. 

The sound of Ava slurpy words sounded over the phone and I stopped my car immediately. I had just left home after another sleepless night with nightmares. I was finally tired of turning on the bed and decided to shower and leave for the office. I was just on my way when she called. 

My heart had skipped a bit when she had called me Jayden and I clenched my fist against the steering. Anger fueled my veins at the sound of another man's name from her lips. 

She was drunk. From the incomplete sentences she was making to the giggles in between her words. And immediately she had said to come pick her, I was reversing and heading to the club before she could say anything else. 

A feeling of uncertainty washed over me as I wondered why she was drunk? Who she had been drinking with? What the hell was she thinking? Wasn't she supposed to be working? Instead she was drinking alcohol. Had something bad happened