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She decided to text rather than call. She knew that he wouldn’t always have access to his phone.
Greer:
I’m so sorry. I left my phone in the car. I was having ice cream with Bonnie.
No answer.Letting out a breath, she drove back to his place. This had been a very bizarre day. She drove home and parked in the small, attached garage before carrying the groceries inside.
Time to make lasagna.
She’d looked up a recipe on Hack’s tablet because it was so hard to read on her phone.
Her phone rang and she answered the call.
“Hi,” she said.
“Little girl, you’re in trouble.”
Gulp.
“You left your phone in the car? While you were at the grocery store?”
“Um, no. When I was having ice cream with Bonnie.”
“How did that come about?”
“Um, well, I was kind of in a slight altercation.”
“A what?” he asked in a chilling voice.
“A slight altercation. I was backing out of a parking space and my phone made a noise so I got distracted and didn’t see the car behind me.”
“Greer! Are you all right? Are you hurt? Shit. I’m coming home right now.”
“No, no, wait! I’m fine.”
“Fine? You were in a car accident! How can you be fine?”
“I wasn’t in a car accident. There was no damage to either vehicle. The guy got a bit . . . heated. But that’s when Bonnie and Titus came along. They handled him, then Bonnie took me to her place and Titus drove Aidan’s car, which is how my phone ended up in the car while I had ice cream with Bonnie.”
“Ice cream with Bonnie,” he said in a low voice.
“Uh-huh.”
“You weren’t hurt?”
“I’d be the first to tell you if I was . . . we both know I’m not shy about telling someone when I’m hurt.”
“Yet, you didn’t think to grab your phone and call me straight away after this . . . altercation?”
Uh-oh.
“What is your rule about what to do if something scares or harms you?”
“I’m meant to call you. But I wasn’t in any real trouble.”
“You said this guy was upset.”
“There might have been yelling,” she whispered.
