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

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

She exhaled disappointedly, her hand falling limp in her lap, her thoughts drifting to the brief encounter with the Theodore doppelganger from earlier that

defeat washed over her, a feeling that had hollowed out her very core. Was she so desperate and delusional that she now

deep breath in an attempt to calm her tumultuous mind. She scrolled through the man’s profile once

herself. What had she expected to unearth about Theodore from this enigmatic man she

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

following morning and seemed more like a shadow of

she coaxed, “I’m certain Daddy will be

his lips puckered with doubt, silently musing, “Are you truly expecting me to

to listlessly turning

of guilt as she gazed at her sad

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

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

it was Sonia’s exuberant voice that greeted

well, you sound

a special someone’s call,

in her friend’s voice, Ariana couldn’t help but laugh, a

using an

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