Chapter 4

Leon bolted out of the hospital and dialed Claire's number over and over. "The number you have dialed is currently busy..."

His messages came back with a red exclamation mark. Undelivered. He stood frozen, his fingers rigid. Every channel, every number, every platform, all blocked.

For the first time, he was completely shut out of her world. His heart dropped into a void. A panic unlike anything he'd ever felt seized him by the throat. He had lost her.

The realization drove itself into his skull like an ice pick.

Maya's cloying perfume still hung in the air inside his…