Chapter 12
This wasn’t the call Allen had wanted.
He didn’t answer it. Instead, he opened his contacts list. His finger hovered over Claire’s name, hesitating for a long moment before he finally pressed it.
Unfortunately, the cold, mechanical voice on the other end greeted him.
“Sorry, the number you dialed is unavailable…”
Allen had prepared a whole speech, but not a single word left his mouth.
“How could it be turned off? Claire’s phone can’t be off! She promised she would never let it die again,” he muttered to himself, lost
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in confusion.
The last time Claire’s phone had been off was when she had had an appendicitis attack and needed surgery.
By the time Allen finished a medical lecture and came out, Claire had already been wheeled into the operating room, unconscious. Her phone had run out of charge and automatically shut off.
Allen had spent three hours looking for her, and it wasn’t until a colleague from the hospital helped him that he discovered Claire had been admitted.
He remembered that day clearly. he had found her and immediately scolded her relentlessly.
She had just woken up, the pain from the
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In the next instant, Allen rushed out of his office, not even bothering to change out of his white coat or wait for the workday to end.
He had to go home. He nceded to see what was going on with Claire–why her phone was off.
Ignoring red lights, Allen drove quickly toward home.
When he burst through the front door, the silence of the house seemed to grip his heart with an invisible hand.
The suffocating feeling made him anxious and afraid.
“Claire… Claire… Are you home?” His voice trembled as he called out.
He kept trying to reassure himself, recalling
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open the bedroom door.
The first thing he saw was the engagement ring on the nightstand. His pupils contracted sharply.
His gaze locked onto the ring–it was their engagement ring.
Claire had always treated it as a treasure, never willing to take it off. She even wore it while doing laundry or cooking.
Once, while washing clothes, the sharp edge of the ring had cut her finger. The blood stained the ring, but she smiled and joked, “I guess the diamond you bought me is real; the sharp edge is so hard.”
But now, the engagement ring had been removed.
