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"What did you think?" Melanie said cheerfully as she came out of the bathroom, wrapped in a plush hotel room bathrobe while drying off her hair with an equally plush towel.
No response.
She scanned the room for Armando. He wasn't there.
She went on to the balcony overlooking Gramercy Park. He wasn't on the balcony either.
That's strange! She thought to herself. They hadn't been apart a single second since the moment they left campus and got in the taxi to carry them to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Melanie searched for her phone and sent Armando a quick text:
Where are you?
She heard a phone buzz on the bedside table. She walked over to find the poet's cell still in the charger. The phone was locked.
Why didn't he bring his phone? Melanie wondered. Maybe he jus
