Chapter 301

Ava's POV I tried calling Joseph again, but he didn't answer, only sending his standard "will call back later" text. I called his company again, and they gave me the same brush-off about passing along my message. So I called Eleanor, who answered enthusiastically. "Hey, gorgeous! How's it going over there?" "Everything's fine, Eleanor. Alpha Draven and Caroline are avoiding each other, but things have been better since she started dating Jax." "Yeah, that's good for her. But what about you? Why are you calling me in the middle of the day?" Now I needed a good excuse, because Eleanor wasn't naive. How could I get the information I needed without raising suspicions? "Nothing special, Eleanor. I just wanted to surprise Joseph and was wondering which day would be best, since I know you two usually work late." "Thank goddess, we haven't worked late for weeks now. It's pretty quiet here, and Joseph even went shopping at the mall with Antonio this afternoon. So, any day would work for you." I