“I don’t know an Ava Stone,” Jaden told her over the phone. He sounded curious too. “I don’t know what Max did in the two years after he left home so there’s a gap there,” he said. He said Max had never mentioned that name before. In fact, he said Max didn’t have a girlfriend at all until he started dating Laura out of the blue. “You know, we were childhood friends, all of us, he never showed much interest in her when we were younger but out of the blue, after he started his tech firm, he started seeing her and I didn’t question him,” he said. When Clarissa asked him about Max’s nightmares, Jaden was surprised. “He is still getting those nightmares? I thought he would have gotten over it by now,” he said. He told her that Max has been having nightmares since he came to take Jad