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Camille:

I was breathing fast. This was too much.

Reggie was glaring at me, obviously mad that I had answered Daniel’s call in front of him, or was it because he realized I had his number? Daniel’s voice sounded equally mad on the phone.

Wait a minute. Neither of them had any right to be mad at me. I was the one who was having a bad day and yet somehow without being in each other’s presence, both of them had managed to make it about them.

I frowned.

“What kind of question is that?” I snapped at Daniel over the phone. “What’s your business with where I am?”

There was silence. I held the phone with both hands, slightly shaking, but I didn’t take back my words.

I heard him sigh over the phone.

“Just be careful,” he said and hung up.

“What was that?” Reggie asked, taking the phone from me and growing when he saw the call was already ended.

“I was talking to Daniel,” I said.

“That much was clear. What did he want?”

I stared at him.

“I don’t think that’