After talking with Amber, I headed to my room. I didn't want to stay around her anymore, as I knew she would bring up Marco again. I turned on my phone, which had been turned off for the past three days.
As I turned it on, I was bombarded with chats, messages, and calls from numbers I didn't recognize.
But before I could read the messages, Edward suddenly called.
I answered the call. "Hello?"
"Where have you been, Gemma? I haven't been able to reach you for several days," he said.
"I, uh..." I didn't know how to tell him that I had stayed at Marco's condo. If he found out, he would surely get angry again about the kind of work I was involved in.
"I have something to tell you," he said when he didn't get a response from me.
"What is it?" I asked.
"I know where your father's former
