Chapter Four
HALLIE
My phone vibrates incessantly on the nightstand. Gah, how annoying. I’m patting around blindly for it, not making contact, when it finally stops. Good. Pulling my arm back under the sheet, I’m just falling back to sleep when the vibrating starts up again.
“f**k my life.”
I blink several times, trying to get my eyes to focus and brush the hair off my face, finally finding the damn annoying device with my fingertips. I can’t see clearly enough to read the caller ID so I swipe a finger over the screen, bring it to my ear and mumble, “’Lo.”
“Are you still in bed?”
Mom’s voice has me jerking upright and instantly wide awake.
“Good Lord, Hallie. It’s after two o’clock in the afternoon. And what am I looking at? Is that your ear?”
Aw crap, she has me on a video call. T
