55. GIFTS

VINCENT

"We have been following your brother—by we, I mean.. the investigators have been following him and I just take the reports. His calls and texts are being tracked as well. There has been contact between him and Katerina. Okay, well, there has been some contact, but only from Katerina's end, he has never replied.." James updated me as I pounded my fists into the punching bag in front of me over and over.

Beads of sweat trickled down my naked upper body to the hem of my shorts and I blinked as a single one trailed down, into my left eye.

"And has he met her once in the last week? It's been almost two weeks since the party. There must have been a couple of meetings. I asked to know the details of those meetings." I informed him and he replied,

"They have not met."

There was a moment of silence where we looked at each other with the look in my eyes simply saying, 'Be fucking for real..' without words.

He sighed and went on, "I know. It was hard for me to believe at