(Vincent / Ayanna)
They had fallen out without the actual fall out. Till this day, she’s unsure of what happened. To their friendship that is. Everything else, Vincent made clear. He’s never lied to her in the years they’ve known one another but she wishes he had never pulled away so abruptly. ayanna isn’t exactly used to losing people she loves. Even if it happens often to her. Each one hits her like a ton of bricks. Aiden being the last one. So it’s nice to see the familiar face and hopefully this means she’ll be seeing Vinnie more often.
keeping the embrace for a few seconds, she pulled away gingerly, removing her mask so that she could see how her features soften at his words. “You’re always so charming, Vin.” At the mention of the free time, her smile widens a bit. “The twins will love to know you’ll be around more.” And her too of course but she didn’t want that to come off too weird. At his acceptance, she leads the way to the exit and toward the gazebo. Thankfully, it’s empty and Ayanna moves to sit down, gesturing him to join her. “So…retirement so young? I’m so proud of you, Vinnie. You know that?”
Vincent found the hardest decision he ever made was breaking things off with Ayanna, but he’d seen how quickly his mother’s care fell to Cordelia and how it changed their life forever. He couldn’t become a burden to the newly made Mother no matter how much he loved her. He told himself time and time again he’d done the right thing by pulling away allowing her to live her life free from his problems. But with the murder of Aiden, Vince couldn’t stay away from his family any longer.
He chuckled softly looking at Aya “You were the only girl to ever think so” He replied moving to follow her. The Gazebo was beautifully decorated as they stood there “I’ve missed the twins so much, how have they been?” He questioned before looking down, it wasn’t known to many that he’d punched a rather horrible Sheriff that lead to his retirement but that wasn’t something anyone needed to know. “You are Aya? It was just working with the FBI, nothing super important, and look at this club everything is so beautiful and there isn’t an employee here who doesn’t love and respect you”














