Chapter 11: Snubbing huh?

Denver paced back and forth as his fingers tapped impatiently on his phone screen.

“Snubbing huh?”

His fingers trembled slightly as he dialed Ariadne's phone number for what felt like the hundredth time. Each ring felt like an eternity, stretching on without response.

“Come on, Aria," he muttered under his breath, frustration evident in his voice. "Answer the damn phone."

He sighed in frustration and continued pacing restlessly across his room.

‘Why wasn't she answering? What happened?’

He picked up his phone again and scrolled through to check his text messages, realizing he had sent her a handful of messages over the past few days, but there was no response.

It was as if his words had vanished into the void, leaving him in a state of disarray.

Restlessness gnawed at him, and he began to stump his feet harder on the tiled floor with a growing sense of unease settling in the pit of his stomach.

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