AVA'S POV
The call ended, but I didn't move.
I stared at the black mirror of my phone, the silence of the room suddenly deafening. A quiet breath escaped me, shaky and unsteady. Then, against my will, a smile tugged at the corner of my lips, soft and terrifyingly real.
"Goodnight, beautiful."
I replayed those two words in my head, the low rumble of his voice echoing in my memory more times than I cared to admit. It shouldn't have affected me. It shouldn't have sent a jolt of electricity straight to my core.
Yet, somehow...
It did.
It did so much more than it should have.
I shook my head, a nervous laugh bubbling up from my throat.
"What is wrong with me?"
Just a week ago, I had been crying myself to sleep over a man who barely looked at me. Now, another man had me smiling like an
