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He heard Sal take a deep breath "She won’t be happy to hear that"

Just like that, Eric was back to feeling eer set in "Ask her what she would do"

Sal didn’t respond to that Instead, he asked, "Will you do me a favor, then?"

"What?" Eric stared out his

"As long as you two been together, don’t even consider ending things without giving her a chance to explain You wanna knohy? Ask her"

Eric agreed to that ht hadn’t even entered his h the weekend without her, then another full week aas going to be a challenge in itself He couldn’t even iine his life without Sofia

It wasn’t until his drive hoht that Eric finally decided to answer Sofia’s call He’d listened to every single one of her es She’d cried in just about all of them, which only made him choke up, as well They were all the saive herself for hurting hi he needed to know So he slipped in his earpiece and answered her call

"Why?"

He heard her sniffle, but she said nothing at first Then she spoke up "I don’t know"

"Bullshit, you don’t just do so like that for no reason"

"I swear it just happened I didn’t even have tiripped the steering wheel tighter "You have feelings for him, Sofia?"

"No! Not at all"

Eric took in the sincerity in her voice, then ree of the situation

"Did he touch you?"

Her silencethis? He didn’t want to know But he had to