Isabella noticed it the moment Gabriel reached into his pocket and pulled out his earbuds.
He plugged them in quietly, eyes fixed on his phone, his attention drawn completely away from her.
For a brief second, she told herself it was nothing, maybe a work call, or music. But then she saw his lips twitch slightly, as if he were reacting to something he heard.
Her stomach tightened.
A voice note.
She had seen the screen light up just before he put in the earbuds, and even though she hadn’t caught the sender’s name, she remembered that message from earlier — the one that had flashed across his phone before he took it away quickly.
“Hi baby…”
Those words kept replaying in her mind like a mocking echo.
She tried to focus on the road ahead, but curiosity clawed at her. Her fingers fidget
