Page 79 of Dark Love

“Are you sure about that?”

Max flips the screen down and turns to me. “Yeah, I’m sure. If you wanted to stay broken, you would be hiding in that house. Not sitting here talking to me.”

“Was talking to you voluntary?” I smile over at him.

“Nope.” He winks and goes back to working.

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Strong arms wrap around me, waking me up. “What’s going on?”

The hazy world refuses to focus.

“You fell asleep. I’m putting you in your bed before I head home,” Max says softly in my ear.

“I can walk.”

“You can’t even open your eyes. Just enjoy the ride.”

I do just that. By the time we make it upstairs, I’m mostly asleep again. Tonight can go into the dream category as well.

It didn’t really happen.

Weird Phone Calls

Dahlia

I love my job. I really do, but being sleep-deprived doesn’t make it any easier.

“You’ve reached 911. What is your emergency?” It feels like I’ve said that a thousand times today.

“Well, don’t you sound beautiful,” a male voice answers.

Weird calls aren’t anything new either, but this guy’s voice is creepy. “What is your emergency?”

“Are you as pretty as you sound?”

Definitely a creep. “You’ve reached 911. What is your emergency?”

“Definitely as pretty.”

Why do weirdos think they can call 911? “If there is no emergency, I will be disconnecting this call.”

“Until we talk again.” He clicks off before I can.

“You, okay?” Mindy asks between calls.

“Fine. The weirdos give me the heebie-jeebies.” And that guy was one of the worst, even though he didn’t actually say anything threatening.

“Go tell Adonis. They make a note of the weirdos in case it turns into something.”

Oh, isn’t that just peachy. “Will do.” Even though I would prefer to pretend it didn’t happen, I make my way to his office.

“Prue, what’s up? Come on in.” He stands up, waiting for me to sit down. “Are you not feeling well? You look a bit pale.”

That seems to be a normal state for me lately. “I’m fine. I just got a weird call.”

“Ahh,” he says that like it’s something that happens all the time.

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