Unconscious Husband: Meet Her Love In Silence by Ken Slaner

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

but unlock her phone again, her compulsion driving her to pore over the man’s sparse social media presence time and time again. She

shrouded in ambiguity. She exhaled disappointedly, her hand falling limp in

core. Was she so desperate and delusional that she now saw his apparitions wherever she turned? The very thought left

took a slow, deep breath in an attempt to calm her tumultuous mind. She scrolled through the man’s profile once more, but it revealed nothing

she reprimanded herself. What had she expected to unearth

locked her phone and shuffled off to bed, the images of those vacant social media pages trailing behind

uncharacteristically silent the following morning and seemed more like a shadow of

fingers ran tenderly through his hair as she coaxed, “I’m certain Daddy will be

regarded her skeptically, his lips puckered with doubt, silently musing, “Are you

listlessly turning the pages of his picture

a weight of guilt as she gazed at

back to her silent phone. She had been anxiously anticipating the stranger’s call since she woke

then, an unfamiliar number flashed across her screen. Her

voice that greeted her, bubbling

you

on a special

her friend’s voice, Ariana couldn’t help but laugh, a sound tinged with amusement and

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