Evelyn POV Work is flat out all day as rush after rush comes into the cafe. Business is booming, and by the time we get a break in customers, it is after 2 PM. Looking at my phone, I check to see if I have messages from any of them, but there is nothing. I am supposed to meet up with Ryland and Orion for lunch, but there isn’t even a message. Placing my phone back down on the counter, I try to feel them through the bond, feel anything but get nothing but radio silence as they continue to block me. I am an outsider in my own relationship, and the silence is becoming deafening. I pick up my phone again, intending to message Ryland and ask if I should still pop over, but I delete it and place my phone down again right when Laura comes over, glancing at my phone. “Everything alright?” She

