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CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Me: I know it’s been a while since we’ve talked, but in a couple of hours, it’s going to be the new year and the thought of you popped into my head. It’s been a hell of a year for me, and you were a huge part of that. Wherever you are, I hope you’re safe, and I hope you’re having fun.

Undelivered.

I stared at the text, unsure why the message was coming back as undelivered. We had the same kind of phone. My blue box of text appeared on the right side, and her white box of text appeared on the left, everything looking completely normal.

Until the exclamation point showed up in bright red.

She had no reason to block me, so that couldn’t be it. But if she had, I was positive the message would still look as though it had gone through—at least on my end.

I knew she hadn’t reactivated her account on Hooked. I had this strange habit of checking every few weeks, even though I’d set up an alert to be notified. I just feared that the alert, for some reason, wouldn’t go through a