Unable to hear her response, Isaac anxiously asked, “Hazel, are you all right?”

“Yeah, it is nothing.” Hazel sucked in a deep breath. “I’m just asking.”

“Really?” He was still worried.

“Really,” she replied.

After a brief chat with Isaac, she hung up.

She went straight back to her dorm, she was thankful that Summer and Ariel weren’t there.

She looked down at the chocolate box in her hand. She had actually brought it back, she threw it in the trash can without thinking twice.

Just as it hit the bottom of the can with a loud thud, her phone rang.

Looking at the two words “Joshua Denmark” on the...