Vodka Kisses

0619- Did You Miss me?

"Mona basically told you that she was ready to kill Charlotte." Aria points out to Emily.

"But she didn't because Charlotte never showed up." Emily nods.

"Not guilty because the victim didn't show?" Spencer crosses her arms. "That's setting the bar pretty low, Em."

"Innocent, guilty, whatever. She admits to being the brunette on the phone, let's tell Tanner this so I can get off the suspect list." Aria panics.

"So do you think she's lying?" Emily asks Spencer.

"Well, pick a topic." Spencer rolls her eyes.

"Mona is one of the biggest liars we know." I tell them.

"About Charlotte, not meeting her that night." Emily adds in despair.

"That's probably true. It's too easy to check." Spencer nods.

"While you guys are discussing this, let's remember that I was the one that was in a lineup. All right? It's really unflattering lighting there." Aria panics.

Her panic makes sense.

She wasn't in the hotel room when Charlotte died, she had to do a line up and she got flamed last night.

"So what, do we wait?" Emily questions.

"Whoever this is wants us to hand over Charlotte's killer before election night." Spencer tells us.

"And they're getting impatient." Emily adds with a nod.

"Yeah? Well, does anyone wanna put some ointment on that impatience?" Aria gestures to her bandaged up burnt arm.

"Look, a free-range Mona is more likely to lead us someplace, especially if she thinks we believe her." Spencer looks around at us.

"So, we believe her." Emily says.

"We believe her enough." Spencer rests her hand under her chin in thinking.

****
Logan squeezes my shoulder.

"Come to Philly with me." He tells me again.

I'm sat at the table doing some work for my team which apparently can't function whilst I'm gone.

Ali is also in the hospital with an accident apparently. I text her but the girls don't believe it was an accident.

"I can't." I end my incoming call.

"You can, it will be nice and we'll drive back tonight. We can have dinner with your father in the city, he has big news." He tells me.

Big news?

I raise an eyebrow at him, him now finally gaining my attention.

Logan and my dad have been meeting a lot recently, doing a lot of dinners and phone calls.

"Gracie baby, come to Philly." He kisses my shoulder.

Before I give in my phone rings again.

I go to end the call but Logan takes the phone out of my hand whilst groaning. He stands up straight and answers the call.

"Hello?" He answers soundly impatient.

"No she's busy doing work, like you should be." He sounds so annoyed.

"Do I need to hire new staff? It sounds to me like you're incapable of doing your job. I work in the same office as Miss Martin and I see the constant calls and emails she has to put up with and you being the biggest instigator Oscar." My eyes widen.