Chapter 26 : I'll Be Waiting
*Liam*
I am ready to take this farmhouse down board by board. I consider throwing my phone at the wall, letting the image Mark sent me shatter with it, then hole up here for the rest of Ava and my natural lives.
But that wouldn’t be fair to Ava.
“What’s going on, Liam?” Ava asks, correctly reading my expression. I hate that I have to tell her this, I know how much this is going to hurt her.
I sigh and bring the phone over to her, surprised the screen hasn’t cracked with how hard I’m holding it in my hand.
Pulling my chair over to be side-by-side with Ava’s, I reveal the screen that had been hiding against my palm.
Mark had sent me a screenshot of a text he received from James Kincaid. And it was blackmail.
On Ava and me.
Ava gasps and takes the phone from me, gripping it in shaking hands.