Chapter 52

Emily

Cole was avoiding me.

He somehow managed to completely disappear on Saturday, despite me spending the best part of an hour looking for him.

I had a sneaky feeling Annabell was helping him, as I saw her a couple of times with a mischievous grin on her face as she watched me walk by.

From the little I had seen of him though, he looked like he was doing better. The black circles under his eyes had gone, and his smile looked real instead of forced, like it was last week.

I just hoped that he was finally moving on.

It wasn’t until Thursday that I realised I was missing something, when Casper asked,

“How was Cole on Saturday?”

I found the question odd, as Casper made it clear he didn’t want to be involved when I asked him to speak to Nathan last week.

Casper was not one to pry into other people’s business. He was a very private person himself and so he didn’t enjoy those sort of conversations, and avoided them at all costs.

“He was doing better, why do you ask?” I said, carefully ob