I quickly stepped closer to my bed as my breathing quickened. My eyes almost filled with excitement as I answered the call without even looking at the screen.
“Max!” I called, heaving breathless as I waited for his voice to come out through the speaker of my phone…
“Nah, girl?”
But, hearing that shrill, feminine voice on the other end of the line, I almost threw myself on the bed in extreme frustration, disappointed.
It's not him.
It's not Maximus on the other line.
There, while lying down, my shoulders slumped as I held the phone screen in front of my face to look at who it was. Mimi… She's the one who called. I could clearly see her registered name on the screen. It felt like heaven and earth squeezed me as soon as I realized it.
My lips pouted as I sat back down on the bed, how f
