ROSES POV
Alex had returned to the room after almost 15 minutes of making a call, his expression unreadable. He walked over to me, his movements purposeful, but still, there was something guarded about him.
He held out his phone without saying a word. “It’s Alice. She wants to talk to you.”
I hesitated before taking the phone from him. His gaze lingered on me, almost too intensely, and his lips barely parted as if he were holding back something unsaid.
“I’m not going to lie to her,” I said quietly, my voice still hoarse from everything that had happened.
“I didn’t ask you to,” Alex replied, his tone calm and unbothered. “Just talk to her.”
There was a strange, uneasy feeling that clung to me, like something was happening right under my nose, and I didn’t have the full picture.
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