#170 “Why won’t You Answer?”

As soon as their plane landed, Sophia was eager to return to her grandfather’s house. She and Benjamin hailed a taxi, the anticipation of revisiting her childhood home palpable in the air. Upon arriving in front of the house, Sophia reached for her phone to inform Alexander of their safe arrival.

“I’ll just write to Alexander that everything is fine and we’ve arrived,” she announced, her fingers hovering over the screen.

But before she could proceed, Benjamin swiftly snatched the phone from her hand, eliciting a frown from Sophia.

“You can write to him as soon as we enter. Come on, Sophia, you haven’t been here for years, let’s get settled in first,” Benjamin suggested, his tone persuasive.

Sophia chuckled at Benjamin’s eagerness. “God, Benjamin, you’ve really missed this place,” she remarked, a fond smile playing on her lips.

replied nostalgically, his arm draped casually

that he had discreetly stowed away her phone in his own pocket, a subtle act that did not

evoking a sense of warmth and comfort that she hadn’t felt in years. Benjamin watched her with a knowing smile, his own fondness for the

eyes scanning the familiar

as if trying to capture the moment. “Some things never change,” he mused, his

was something more to Benjamin’s demeanor, a subtle undercurrent beneath his seemingly innocent demeanor. But she pushed aside her suspicions,

they settled into the house, Sophia’s curiosity grew, her eagerness to uncover her grandfather’s secrets

the day wore on, Alexander found himself unable to shake the restless agitation that gripped him like a vice. Despite his best efforts to focus on his work, his mind kept drifting back to the image Benjamin had sent him, tormenting him with visions of Sophia and Benjamin together, their smiles mocking him from the screen of his

jealousy and insecurity. He

as the afternoon wore on and his calls went unanswered, his frustration boiled over into a seething cauldron of anger and

he waited for her to pick up. But

to himself, his voice thick

couldn’t shake the feeling

new notification. With trembling hands, he unlocked the screen to see

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