Xavier had barely begun to fully process the first call he’d just finished with Bella before his phone began ringing again. When he looked down at the screen, it read as a private number, but given the fact that he was currently trekking through the backwoods of West Virginia, it was a wonder he was getting service at all.
He was reticent to pick up the phone after the call he’d just had. His emotions were too ragged for Xavier to hold a normal conversation right now, his nerves too raw. Bella’s words had been a hard pill to swallow, especially coming right on the heels of his own mother’s similar admonishment.
Xavier had f****d up. He knew that now, and if he were ever f*****g honest with himself, he knew that he’d been fumbling the situation with Ava for a long time. He thought
