She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 563:

Maybe it was the liquid courage, or maybe something else, but he pulled out his phone and found Freya’s contact. He typed, “I’m sorry.”

His thumb hovered over the send button, caught in hesitation. Eventually, he erased it and typed something simpler. “Are you sleeping?”

He waited. A few minutes passed, feeling like centuries.

When Freya didn’t respond, he found her number and dialed.

This time, he didn’t hang up.

Freya had been replying to Alan’s message when she saw Kristian’s name light up her screen.

Without a second thought, she declined the call. But Kristian wasn’t giving up tonight.

called again. She declined again—he called

third try, Freya was about to decline again but paused. Maybe it was better to answer than

usually would. Her tone was

her on the other

about to hang up, Kristian finally asked, “Do

their past up again. “If you’ve got something to say, say it. I’m

to give him a reason to keep

gⱯ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀.𝗰𝗈n – 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼

Ashley hadn’t come between us, would we still be happy?” Kristian’s voice was

respond. What was

chatter. If you called to talk about nonsense,

time, he didn’t call again. He stared at the ended call, watching the

after the call ended, she felt surprisingly calm. Kristian hadn’t shaken

up directly to get to the point. “Have you decided whether you’re coming to