Page 62 of Show Me How to Heal
My whole body lurched.
Adam.
He’d said he wanted to break up with Marc. Oh shit. Something must’ve happened!
I hit the accept button, pressing my phone against my head.
“Is Addy okay?” I asked, my voice several notes higher from the tension.
“Uhm… yeah? I think so. Why wouldn’t Adam be okay?”
I furrowed my brows, slowly releasing my breath, trying to calm my pulse.
“Aren’t you calling about Adam?”
“No?” Mason sounded utterly confused. Rightly so. I’d jumped to conclusions — and it was apparently the wrong one. “Are you and Lukas in your shop right now?”
“Luka… oh, me and Luke? No, I’m still at home, but I’m heading over in a minute, I just have to load my truck first, why?”
Mason cleared his throat. “Because… uhm… have you checked your social media accounts yet?”
“No? I’ve got posts scheduled for today and had scheduled a few for yesterday, but I’m not actually gonna waste my precious time on my phone today.”
For a moment it was quiet on the other side of the line. Then I heard a few rustling noises.
“You’re on speaker now,” Avery declared, his voice a little contorted and tinny. “We just got our coffees at Kickstart and there was quite the… uhm… turmoil about you and Luke.”
“Turmoil? About us?” I raised my brows. “Why? It’s not like our relationship was a secret…”
There was more silence, and it felt kind of awkward like I was missing something important. Like I wasn’t in on some kind of joke. Only this didn’t particularly feel like a joke.
“Yeah, it’s not about your relationship…. It’s about the photo showing the two of you that went viral,” Avery explained tentatively, voice weirdly strangled.
“There are no photos of us on social media,” I said, rolling my eyes. I wished there were. I wanted my followers to see the person who went above and beyond, working his ass off for way too little pay. I had to rectify that soon. “Luke is a pretty private person with no social media accounts, and he doesn’t like the thought of having his picture online, so I never posted anything showing him. It’s always just me.”
“Uhm…” I think it was Mason who started but interrupted himself before an actual word could leave his mouth.
My heartrate picked up again.
Avery and Mason were starting to make me nervous. Their behavior was strange, so unlike them that my mind started spinning. What were they hinting at?
Now I wished I’d checked my notifications, but ever since my accounts had gone viral and the numbers of followers had gone through the roof, I hadn’t been able to keep up with them, anyway. Well, to be honest, I hadn’t been able to keep up with them in a long time.
“What do you mean Luke has no social media accounts?” Avery finally asked, carefully. “Have you ever tried finding him?”
“Uhm… no?” I swallowed. I didn’t like where this was going, even without actually knowing where this was going in the first place. “I initially meant to but forgot about it. And then he told me about his dislike of all those platforms and that he isn’t on there, anyway, so no.”
There was another short pause.
“Uhm… Zayne?” That was Mason again. “You do know about Luke, don’t you?”
My heart stopped beating. Literally stopped. My skin grew hot and cold at the same time.
No, I really didn’t like this at all.
“Do I know what about Luke?” I croaked.
Did I need to sit down for this?
