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

lan raised his voice at

Why didn't you reply to me when

"lan Holcomb, don't you think those

held his tongue as he was reminded of the times Sage had confronted him in the same

he lose his temper just because Sage ignored his texts? "Sage Joyner, is this what you're getting at? Did you deliberately anger me

"Whatever. I'm busy. If there's nothing else, I'm hanging

Sage had been chasing him away when he showed up at Donald's in the morning. Now, she seemed reluctant to speak to him. This was

if this is a little game you play or an attempt to cut ties with