With a hint of a smile in his voice, he enlightened her.

“You haven’t told me your son’s name yet.”

Ariana hit her palm on her forehead in a resounding slap. How in the world had she not given him his name? “Sorry, it completely slipped my mind. His name’s Max,” she quickly told Holden.

“Got it, Max, it is. I’ll make sure to keep that in my memory,”

Holden quipped with a light chuckle.

“Send me your number. I’ll give him a ring tomorrow.”

“Thank you so much.” A sigh of relief escaped Ariana’s lips. She could finally release the tension that had been furrowing her brow.

A moment of acknowledgment passed between them before the line went off.

Lowering her phone, Ariana found herself entranced, caught between the eerie resemblance of that voice to Theodore’s and the warmth of Holden’s tenor. The haunting similarity left her in a daze. It wasn’t until after she had dispatched her contact details to him that her tumultuous thoughts started to dissipate.

A N G E L A ‘s L I B R A R Y

at the edge of the couch, Ariana couldn’t help but unlock her phone again, her compulsion driving her to pore over the man’s sparse social media presence time and time again. She hunted fruitlessly for any breadcrumbs of

exhaled disappointedly, her hand falling limp in her lap, her thoughts

washed over her, a feeling that had hollowed out her very core. Was she so desperate and delusional that she now saw his apparitions wherever she turned? The

slow, deep breath in an attempt to calm her tumultuous mind. She scrolled through

expected to unearth about Theodore from this enigmatic man she had never even

her head, Ariana locked her phone and shuffled off to bed, the images of those

and seemed more

hair as she coaxed, “I’m certain Daddy will be calling very soon, my sweet. Perhaps

lips puckered with doubt, silently musing, “Are you

he returned to listlessly turning the pages

weight of guilt as

was constantly drawn back to her silent phone. She had been anxiously anticipating the stranger’s call since

number flashed across her screen. Her heart leaped as she swiped to answer, eagerly saying,

was Sonia’s exuberant voice that

well, you

on a special someone’s call,

voice, Ariana couldn’t help but

using an

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