Scarlett's POV The moment I turned on my phone, it lit up like a Christmas tree on fire with so many buzzes.Notifications poured in faster than I could blink—missed calls, text messages, app alerts, emails. The lock screen was barely readable under the flood.It felt like I had opened a portal to the real world again.I didn’t realize how much I had missed it, how much I had needed that tiny, blinking screen just to feel alive. Free. Connected. Like maybe I wasn’t completely swallowed by Liam’s world after all.But that moment of relief lasted for just three seconds because right at the top of the screen, in glaring red letters, were 47 missed calls from Editor Lucy, and 118 unread messages.I muttered a string of curses under my breath, most of them directed at Liam. “Seriously, Liam? You take my phone, trap me in a house, let me rot for almost three weeks, and now I’ve probably lost my job?”Without wasting too much time, I tapped the call button and held the phone to my ear.Lucy
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