Chapter 31 Call From The Past

• Rania stared at the screen for a long time, her heart beating fast between fear and a strange urge to answer it. “Should I answer it?”
• The light of the desk lamp suddenly felt too bright, spotlighting too much of every nervousness she could no longer hide. She stared at the screen that kept ringing, the unfamiliar number flashing endlessly as if demanding an immediate answer.
• She glanced at Aleksander, looking for some kind of approval in his eyes, trying to measure whether the courage that had begun to grow within her over the past few weeks was enough to face whatever would be revealed at the end of the line.