Chapter 213 Reckoning Time

The phone kept buzzing, and after a moment's hesitation, I answered. "Hello?" I greeted, my voice tinged with a formal distance. Silence. I was about to assume the caller got the wrong number when a man's voice, cool and sharp, cut through the quiet, "I'm not doing so well." His tone was so off that I could tell something was really wrong, even through the phone. I was momentarily speechless, unsure of what had happened. "What's... what's the matter?" I asked tentatively. Was he actually remembering how he made a fool of himself last night? Maybe he was gearing up to corner me, warning me to keep quiet about his less-than-graceful moments by acting all cold and threatening? I racked my brain for a bit before his annoyed voice broke through, "Yvette, I'm at the hospital." Wait, what? How did his being under the weather have anything to do with me? Trying to keep my cool, I asked, "Grandma's getting out of the hospital today. Are you going to pick her up?" I could practically he