Chapter 183

Jake took a long drag of his cigar as he stared into the night. It’s been over a month since he saw Ava last and that was during the incident at this house.

He had always thought that she was into him from the get-go. She had given him all the right signals, she confided in him, she cared about him, and for a brief moment, he was her favorite person in the world.

He still couldn’t believe she had changed within the blink of an eye. She had also been warming towards him at the bar when she suggested she and her sister slept over at his place. He knew that there wasn’t anything stopping her from calling Sebastian that night to come take her home or get one of his guards to do so but she had chosen him out of all the options at her disposal. That was supposed to be his moment when he would get the woman of his dreams but after making the first move, she fled. He tried chasing after her but she had disappeared into thin air, his first instinct had been to continue chasing after her. If h