Chapter 23
It wasn’t the birds chirping outside the window that woke Cori from a deep sleep. It was Jesse’s phone. By the sound of his ringtone, it was his personal line, not the one he used for band business. She was about to turn over and tell him to answer it when she noticed he wasn’t behind her. The heat of his body was gone.
A second later, he was moving about the room. She didn’t budge when she heard him grab his phone off the nightstand and answer it. He kept his voice to a whisper, apparently because he thought she was still asleep.
“Hey, Allen. What’s up?”
Footsteps signaled his movement again. When she heard the bedroom door creak, his voice faded to a low sound she struggled to make out. She didn’t like eavesdropping on his calls. Had he not walked out the door, she would h
