Chapter Fifteen

I stood motionless, my hands getting tighter around the phone as I tried to process what was going on.

Tyler?

The name stuck in my head, jarring with the restaurant's calm atmosphere.

Tyler. It's really him.

"Samantha?" His voice came again, kind, yet full of that familiar ignorance that had attracted and then repulsed me.

I blinked as I felt Caleb's unreadable look and his eyes piercing me.

I stood up from my chair, momentarily forgetting his presence. “Please excuse me.” I managed to say with a shaky voice.

Even with the phone placed to my ear, Caleb's gaze never left mine as I passed.

I shut myself in a stall as soon as I walked into the bathroom.

"Tyler, what do you want?" I was able to whisper while maintaining a neutral, flat tone, finally breaking the silence from my end.

But my heart kept pounding in my chest deep down.

On the other end, there was a moment of silence that only Tyler could pull off.

There was a pause on the other end, the kind of silence that only Tyler c