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Chapter 21

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Avelina

I tossed on the bed, staring at the ceiling. The room was too quiet without Zayne. Midnight had come and gone, yet he still wasn’t back. Where could he possibly have gone at this hour? A meeting? No, he would have said something. Business? Maybe. But something in my chest told me it was more than that.

My mind spun with questions I couldn’t answer, and just when I was about to force myself to sleep, my phone buzzed sharply on the nightstand. The sound tore through the silence, and I jolted upright.

I grabbed it quickly. Mama.

My heart lurched. Why was she calling me at this time of the night? Dread slid down my spine as I swiped to answer.

“Mama?” My voice was tight. “This one you’re calling at this hour—what is it? What happened?”

Her voice trembled on the other end, panic clear through every word. “Avelina… it’s Kyle. He’s sick—very sick. Zayne was here earlier and—and your baby, he—he started seizing. They rushed him to the hospital.”

The phone nearly slipped from my hand.
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