That was a guilty verdict if ever I heard one. "You told him you weren't going?"
She swallowed hard. "Well, no," she said. "I told Mason I wasn't. He said he was going to tell Ethan. That was a week ago so I assume he did."
Smoking g*n not so smoking. "Ava, were you in love with Mason?"
She shook her head with enough violence her hair shivered around her, pieces coming loose from the ponytail to cling to her neck in static charged strands. The look of horror on her face told me the thought never crossed her mind before she could gasp her audible denial. "No! No." Ava hugged herself, rubbing her upper arms with both hands, looking down at her feet a moment before meeting my gaze with hers. She was barely five feet, tiny but muscular from the way her forearms corded when she squared her s
