Chapter 17: Please

Felix POV:

"Felix. You need to come home. Now."

I gripped the phone tighter, my stomach twisting cold and sudden. "Sofia, slow down. What happened?"

"Nothing happened, that's not — " She cut herself off, and I heard her exhale hard, the specific sound of someone trying to steady themselves before they said something they'd been holding in too long. "I just need you to come home."

"I can't just—"

"You left the country, Felix." Her voice cracked slightly on my name, and something about that cr