Chapter7 First Conversation

Amanda, however, has seen the call. Even though Riley’s number hadn’t been saved under his name, it’s one she’d long memorized by heart.

Actually, she hasn’t ignored him on purpose.

Years after her parents passed, she gets a phone call out of blue telling her someone is waiting at her parents’ gravestone with something to discuss.

Amanda is puzzled; her parents’ old friends has lost contact years ago, and she is the only one who regularly visits. But given that it involves her parents, Amanda doesn’t hesitate. She turns the car around and makes her way to the cemetery.

Preoccupied with thoughts, she glances at her phone, deciding to let the call go unanswered—she doesn’t want her mood disrupted by whatever Riley might say.

Arriving at the cemetery, Amanda’s breath catches as she spots a familiar figure.

It’s Faye Aiken.

She’s dressed in an expensive, custom-tailored outfit, smug and imperious, completely different from the frail girl who had clung to Riley in the hospital.

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