Chasing What's Mine by Ava Gray

Author:Ava Gray [Gray, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

14

Dax

The desert sun is just about kissing the horizon when I pull up at TKO. I figured I might as well get an early start at the gym since I couldn’t sleep a wink. Usually when my head is this full, I have a few stiff drinks, fuck a beautiful woman, and sleep like a baby. But with the title fight around the corner, my diet is painfully free of stiff drinks. And Gemma never showed up last night.

I pull my phone from my pocket as I come up to the front door of the gym, key at the ready to unlock it, but my mind is still stuck on her. I must’ve called more than four times, left several messages, and up to now, there hasn’t been so much as a peep from her. Of course, my first instinct was to call Aiden to find out if he maybe knew where she was. But as soon as that thought popped into my head, I had to brush it right back out again. I went from being able to talk to my best friend about everything, to being unable to talk to him about the new and amazing thing in my life that matters most.

“Dax Daytona?”

I turn around to find a team of cops behind me, staring me down. One of them isn’t in uniform, and I assume he’s the one who called out to me just now. Beer gut out to there, cheap suit, looking like he drinks as hard as he lives.

“Who’s asking?”

The plain-clothes detective steps forward, signaling one of his guys with a wave of his finger. “Dax Daytona, you’re under arrest for the murder of Riley Meeks.”

“Wh-what?” My blood runs cold.

“You have the right to remain silent—”

The cuffs are like ice as they snap around my wrists.

Riley’s dead.

The thought swims around my head for the millionth time. For the millionth time, I push it back out again. It can’t be. They have it wrong. Mistaken identity is a thing that happens all the time. There’s no way Riley is—And they think I’m the one who did it?

A deafening clang comes from somewhere outside the interrogation room, echoing off the stark, bare walls. It’s all too familiar. I feel like I’ve been catapulted back into my past, when I spent far too much time in police stations, holding cells, and rooms just like this one. And after so many years of working to never end up back here, I can feel that old sense of despair creeping over me. That heavy, suffocating darkness that used to drape itself around me like a strait jacket.

Aiden’s words come back to me. He wasn’t the first one to suggest that I’ll never be able to escape my past. I fought them hard. Swore they were wrong, because I’d die before I ended up back in that old life—that life where I was nothing and meant nothing to anyone. They didn’t believe me, because they never lived through what I did.

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