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

edge of the couch, Ariana couldn’t help but unlock her phone again, her compulsion driving her to pore

outline of a life shrouded in ambiguity. She exhaled disappointedly, her hand falling limp in her lap, her thoughts drifting to the brief encounter with the Theodore doppelganger from earlier

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

couch, Ariana took a slow, deep breath in an attempt to calm her tumultuous mind. She scrolled through the man’s profile once more,

unearth about Theodore from

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

the following morning and seemed more like a shadow

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

silently musing, “Are you truly expecting me to

returned to listlessly turning the

a weight of guilt as she gazed

drawn back to her silent phone. She

screen. Her heart leaped as she swiped to answer, eagerly saying,

voice

well, you

on a special someone’s call, I

voice, Ariana couldn’t help but laugh, a sound

me using an unfamiliar

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