"It was pouring last night. Why did you open the door as wide as you did?" Mike had already guessed the actual reason, and he just did not want to be explicit about what he actually thought.

He would not persist if she did not want to talk about it.

"Zoe said she heard my voice as her eyes were gouged out," said Avery in a voice like ice. The expression on her face was glacial. "What a poor lier she is? And yet, she still had people who were willing to believe her."

Mike said, "Thank goodness you have Wesley to confirm your alibi. But what were you doing at Wesley's yesterday?"

"I was doing some work," Avery brushed off his question and said, "But no one would have believed me if I told them that."

"Why would they not believe you? Do they think that you are in a relationship with Wesley? If that's the case you would have been visiting his house long ago," teased Mike. "But seriously, I like men like Wesley, but men like him tend to get into relationships with terrible women."