★Cassandra★
When Timothy finally called, I almost dropped my phone. I had been staring at the same email for twenty minutes, pretending to read it, when his name flashed across the screen. My heart skipped, my stomach twisted, and for a second, I considered letting it go to voicemail. But I knew better.
“Hey,” I said as I tried my best to sound calm. The truth was that I had been waiting for my brother to reach out. After Nathan had gone to see him, all I had done was wait. I had also found out that I wasn’t a very patient woman.
“Hey,” he replied. His voice was quiet, cautious. “Are you busy?”
“Not at the moment, no,” I answered as my heart skipped a beat. “What’s up?”
“Ah…yeah, I was hoping we could talk,” he said, and I closed my eyes and breathed out a soft sigh of relief. “I wa
