The phone call clung to me like smoke I couldn’t shake off.
“Hey baby, miss me?”
The way she said it too smooth, too familiar, like she already belonged here made my stomach twist.
I sat there frozen with the receiver pressed to my ear long after the line went dead, my pulse pounding so loud I could hear it in my head. Bloom scratched at my leg, whining, nudging me like she could tell I wasn’t okay. I reached down and buried my fingers in her fur, trying to steady myself.
Who the hell was she? And why did she sound like she knew Liam? Like personally.
I wanted to tell myself it was nothing. A wrong number. A prank. But the voice, the laugh at the end it didn’t sound like a prank. It sounded like someone who was confident they’d just dropped a bomb and walked away smiling.
The floorb
