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

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

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

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

had she expected to unearth about Theodore from this enigmatic man she

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

silent the following morning and seemed more like a shadow of his typically

certain Daddy will be calling very

silently musing, “Are you truly

listlessly turning the pages of

a weight of guilt as she

phone. She had

flashed across her screen. Her heart leaped as

voice that greeted

you

on a special someone’s

lilt in her friend’s voice, Ariana couldn’t

me using an

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