Chapter Thirty Four
The deep, heavy silence that followed right after Khalid’s cold “Absolutely not” stretched out for so long that I honestly thought the phone call had dropped completely. The quietness on the line was so intense that I could hear the sound of my own fast, terrified heartbeat echoing loudly in my ears.
“Khalid, please,” I whispered into the phone speaker, my fingers gripping the smooth plastic of my cell phone so tightly that my knuckles turned completely white in the dark room. “Please, Khalid, don’t do this right now. Don't shut down on me.”
“You honestly expect me to just sit back and be completely okay with you spending an entire, uninterrupted weekend with the exact man who has been actively trying to steal you away from me for weeks?” His voice was incredibly lo
