Chapter 0009

BAILEE

I turned back to Nicole at the bar as she watched with a smirk. I needed to get out of here. “Ben. Where is Ben? I need to talk to my brother. He’s not home and not answering his phone.”

My brother, Benjamin Evans, the starting center for the Rangers, owned this bar, along with several others around the city. With this one being his first, it was his baby. If I ever needed to find him, this was the place to go.

“He’s at an away game,” Nicole said, and my chest sank in as all the air left my lungs. Of course, he was.

“When will he be back?” I asked, placing my hands on the bar as I leaned in, feeling panicked and desperate.

Brinley was at a sleepover, and I had wanted to use the time alone to figure out where we would go from here. I had hoped we could stay with my brother for a few weeks until I could figure something out, but I also hadn’t talked to my brother in a long time.

Every time we spoke, he would always mention Alex at some point, and our conversation would di