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.

didn't you reply to my

pause, she finally realized what had happened. lan had

lan raised his voice at her. She calmly picked her ear and

shift in her tone irked him. He snapped, "Didn't you see my texts? Why didn't you reply to me when

"lan Holcomb, don't you think those words

tongue as he was reminded of the times Sage had confronted him

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

busy. If there's nothing else,

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

my patience is limited. I don't care if this is a little game you play or an attempt to cut ties with me, and I don't care. You're not