Chapter 68 Unfinished Business

• I wasn't expecting the call. With each passing week, a new phase of my life had started, filled with new challenges. Quite frankly speaking, I had relegated anything that had to do with Ethan to the darkest recesses of my mind. Yet, here he was, flashing across my screen, and with him a bundle of emotions I didn't ask for.
• I let it ring a little while longer-my thumb over the decline button. I really should have just let it go to voicemail, let him think I was too busy, too uninterested to answer. But a part of me-a part I hated admitting was still there-needed to hear his voice.
• "Jasmine," his voice filtered through, that familiar blend of frustration and vulnerability. "We need to talk.