Chapter 17

Lucas wheeled his head towards Ava., her back was turned on him as she was slipping into a thick blue robe. His veins tightened so much that his blood seemed to have stopped. How would it not? It would drain the life out of him if he had to tell her that something bad had happened to her father.

“Is he…alive?” he asked, making his voice as low as he could.

“He is but you need to come over to the hospital, I would like to personally see you.”

“Okay, I will come over immediately. Text me the address.”

“I will send YOU shortly,” the doctor replied before hanging up.

“Who was that?”

Lucas jumped; he did not even hear her walk closer to him. His heart was pounding hard against his chest and he silently prayed she had not heard his conversation. Lucas was not one to pray but he did. “Oh.” He thought of a lie to tell her, his extreme honestly really had a consequence and his inability to think of a lie was it.

“Let me guess,” Ava folded her arms as