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Hello…?

Feeling the early ht warm her skin, a smile touched the curve of her lips as she envisioned the man she had fallen asleep next to and whose face hadn’t left her, even in her dreams

Maria gently opened her eyes, ready to look upon him onceher tanned hand out, she touched the spot he had lain in when her eyes had closed hours ago It wasn’t even war her wonder if it had all been a dream after all The only proof she had that he had been there were her memories and the indention of the bed beside her

He left oodbye?

She sleepily searched for her phone before finding it and hitting the naht butterflies to her iht before Maria put her phone to her ear, hearing the white noise before the tone of the ringing assailed her eardrum

bRRing …

The butterflies that had been floating in her belly see to sink

bRRing …

She sat up on the side of the bed Soht as those butterflies slowly sunk to the pit of her stoht

bRRing …

Maria clutched her phone tighter while she held it feverishly to her ear

bRRi—

At the answering of the phone, the pit of her stomach cleared and her irrational fears vanished She waited for his voice to grace her ears However, it wasn’t a single ed to Kayne Evans and the other to Douishable—

BANG!

As she abruptly stood up fro she clutched; it was her black heart she held, trying to keep it froround, unlike the phone on the other end of the call She heard it sround