Tom’s POV
“What?” Ella’s voice come through the phone and it almost falls out of my hand.
I cannot imagine what I had possibly done to offend her already. Or was seeing my call enough to do the trick.
“Hey, sorry, did I catch you at a bad time?” I ask her.
“Yeah. So, speak fast. What is it?”
Sheesh! What had crawled up her ass and died there. It was evening after work hours and I had assumed I would catch her when she was about to get into bed. If I still knew Ella well, and I believed I did, she would not be sleeping, but she would be relaxed enough to have a civil conversation. However, she was not very civil at the moment and I hadn’t planned on that.
I took a deep breath before proceeding. “Um, can we talk?”
“We are talking already aren’t we?”
Okay, that was the wrong thing to
