Chapter 144
Patrick Banks
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“Calm down, Valerie. Please, just breathe and talk to me.” I said, my heart beating rapidly. “Who didn’t make it? What are you talking about?”
Her sobs grew only louder, raw and broken.
I just finished with a business meeting and was about to head back to the hotel when I received a call from Valerie. When I answered, she was already crying.
Her tears cut me like a blade even if I had no idea why she was crying. At first, I thought it was just her pregnancy hormones messing with her emotions, so I waited for her to cry for a while before explaining what was going on.
But as she finally spoke, I realized it wasn’t her hormones, something bad had happened. However, she didn’t say the exact thing that happened.
She just kept on repeating that he did
