Facade of Love

Chapter 213 Reckoning Time

The phone kept buzzing, and after a moment’s hesitation, I answered. “Hello?” I greeted, my voice tinged with a formal distance.

Silence. I was about to assume the caller got the wrong number when a man’s voice, cool and sharp, cut through the quiet, “I’m not doing so well.”

His tone was so off that I could tell something was really wrong, even through the phone.

I was momentarily speechless, unsure of what had happened. “What’s… what’s the matter?” I asked tentatively.

Was he actually remembering how he made a fool of himself last night? Maybe he was gearing up to corner me, warning me to keep quiet about his less–than–graceful moments by acting all cold and threatening?

I racked my brain for a bit before his annoyed voice broke through, “Yvette, I’m at the hospital.”

Wait, what?

How did his being under the weather have anything to do with me?

getting out of the hospital today. Are you going to

night, you took advantage of my drunken state to ‘murder

A concussion?

before responding, “A concussion? But last night was fine…” I had made

him into the door frame where he might

but he did not seem to show any signs of injury afterward and just slept like

mean ‘all fine‘?” His voice was low

casual, I replied, “So, how much do you remember about

was almost palpable over the phone as he said, “I barely remember a thing, Yvette. Right now, I’m the one asking

way home. You got this

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see his face, but I could feel the confusion. I kept going, “You were holding onto this golden retriever, and right there was this black dog, maybe her buddy. I’m not sure what their deal was, but you were all fired up, telling me the black dog was picking on her and you wanted to step in. You even chucked your fancy black card at them like some kind of superhero. I took it back, though. That scratch you got was probably from your showdown with

accidentally hurt him. If he started grilling me about why he got hurt, I could not exactly spill that it was because he went