Chapter 223

The next two days were quiet, awfully quiet for Amara’s liking. Not a single message from Aaron had been sent, and the only contact she had with Jake was the brief ‘still working on it’ he had sent her. Other than that, there was nothing. It was the third day when something out of the ordinary finally happened. Amara was just as clocking out from work when she received a call from an unknown number. She hesitated at first, but the moment she picked it up, she regretted doing so, not because the person turned out to be Aaron, far from that. The person on the other line, turned out to be Elijah’s father. “Amara,” He called her name in a soothing tone that hide well, all the evil he had done. Right there and then, Amara felt like hanging up, or better yet, spitting profanities his face and telling him to never call her, after which she would proceed to happily block his number. But she didn’t. Once again, she allowed the curious side of her win, but with good reason. What if he wanted to