KADE'S POV I wasn't a man who let his mind play tricks on him. I worked and acted based on evidence, especially firsthand evidence, the kind where everything is laid out for you to see. And what better evidence could there be than seeing things for yourself, right in person? I'd called Ava, and she'd conveniently not answered my call. I didn't think much of it. I just assumed she couldn't answer at that point. But now, as I watched her engrossed in a conversation with a man whose back was facing me, preventing me from seeing his face, I could tell he wasn't just anyone. She knew him very well. Otherwise, there'd be no way she'd be outside this late at night talking to him. But I couldn't really put a finger on what particularly irked me about the whole situation. The fact that she ignor

