A Farewell After Being Reborn

Ignoring Calvin's follow-up text, lan zoomed into the screenshot. It showed the food photos Sage took and her wefie with Donald, all posted five minutes ago. It could only mean that Sage had been ignoring his texts.

At the same time, lan received the hotel's phone number and Sage's room number from Terry. Without hesitation, he dialed the number. Sage took a bath with waterproof plastic gloves on and sprayed some medication on her shoulder before settling comfortably in bed.

She tapped into her phone's photo gallery to edit some photos for Instagram. She received several of lan's texts during that time, but she ignored them.

Finally, she published the carefully selected photos on her Instagram. She was about to check out the other photos she had taken when the phone in her room rang.

Thinking it was a call from the front desk, she picked up. "Hello, what's the matter?"

lan was taken aback by Sage's relaxed voice. Much of his boiling anger seemed to have dissipated at that moment.

"Hello?" she inquired once more.

her. "Why didn't you

finally realized what had happened. lan had

lan raised his voice at her. She calmly

you reply to me when you had time to make Instagram posts? How could you treat me like I'm invisible even before we

couldn't hold back a snicker. "lan Holcomb,

he was reminded of the times Sage

and composed, and he never thought he'd get emotional over insignificant matters such as the incident today. But why did he lose his temper just because Sage ignored his texts? "Sage Joyner, is this what you're getting at? Did you deliberately anger me to prove your place in my heart?" he questioned

I'm busy. If there's nothing

Now, she seemed reluctant to speak to him. This was probably his first time being treated in

a little game you play or an attempt to cut ties with me, and I don't care. You're not that important to me!" With that, he slammed the phone onto the table, ending