AVA’S POV

I realised it was Nicholas by the door way.

How could I tell him what just happened?

That I am to take his merger and deliver to some miscreants that kidnapped my mother?

Worry was in his eyes, hair messy, and shirt wrinkled from hours at his desk.

I could not face him.

I could not open my mouth and tell him someone had my mother and I was choosing her over him.

I could not watch his face change when he realized what I was about to do.

So I ran.

I pushed past him before ...