Rowan POV
There were many reasons I shouldn’t drown my sorrows in drink. One of them was waking up in my own vomit. That was a big one. The next one was everything I missed. Elliot had to catch me up on what happened while I was cleaning everything up. The phone call from Aria’s mom. Lucian’s dad had a built-in recorder for all phone calls.
Our dads had left to go find out every single detail about the phone call, leaving the rest of us alone with Aria. She wasn’t near the house though.
I watched her go out to the gardens. There was a small pond at the back of the yard, not too far from the tennis court.
After following that path, I found her sitting on the grass near the pond, staring across the water.
A couple of frogs were perched on lily pads, and I wouldn’t lie, I wasn’t a frog p
