KAIDA REED POV

Was it really right for me to keep ignoring Zavian like this?

I stared at my phone as it rang, the sound cutting through the silence, each vibration sending something jagged twisting through my chest.

We'd had such a beautiful night together… a night that still clung to my skin like a memory I couldn't wash away. A night where I'd felt things I didn't even think I was capable of feeling in a hundred years... And now? Now it felt like I'd imagined all of it.

My thumb hovered over the answer button. For a moment, I almost gave in. Almost let myself hear his voice...