The phone rang in the quiet home she shared with Sarah, piercing the silence.
Laura sat on the edge of her bed, the weight of everything that had happened recently pressing heavily on her chest. She had barely been able to sleep, her thoughts racing from one disastrous event to another.
It felt like the world had turned against her, and she couldn’t find a way out of the darkness that seemed to engulf her.
Her heart still ached from Foden’s betrayal, her trust shattered once again by a man she thought had truly cared about her.
And Sarah—Sarah was dealing with her own struggles after the breakup with Ryan, trying to put herself back together while pretending everything was okay but everything seemed okay now since she started going out with Officer Vargas.
The ringing stopped, but
