Several hours later, the action in the bedroom settled down at last.

Isabel lay exhaustedly under Roland’s naked shoulders and turned on her phone which she had ignored for quite some time now.

She saw more than 99 notifications pop up immediately. There were countless unread messages and more missed calls.

There were calls from Amanda, Carla, Triss, Ramona, and even from her family members.

She frowned and quickly tapped on her messages. Sure enough, everyone had bombarded her with texts.

Amanda had sent countless texts, but what caught her eye was the last one that read, “Isabel, where are you? You’re scaring me. Don’t do anything stupid! Worst comes to worst, we can just issue an official apology and things will die down after that. Just don’t do anything rash. I’ll have to contact the police if you don’t get back to me an hour from now!”

Isabel hurriedly replied, “Hey, Amanda, I'm fine, I just fell asleep accidentally, and my phone died while I was in Slumberland, so I couldn’t hear your calls.”

She sent a text to Carla as well to assure her that everything was fine.

Triss and Ramona had spammed their group chat with messages as well. In the beginning, they were trying to offer words of encouragement and told her to not take the netizens’ criticism to heart. It was only after they noticed that Isabel was not replying that their tone began to grow frantic.

them something along the same lines as what she told Amanda.

time to look at the messages that her mother, Flint, and Caprice had sent

where are you right now? Hurry up

“Sis, where have you been?

already asked Liam to take care of the comments online. Where are you? We’re all worried about you. You can find some friends to drink your worries away if

suddenly felt a sense of relief wash over her—her family cared a great deal

family was in the group, even

to

did you turn off your phone?”

story, “It died while I was sleeping.”

Flint sounded suspicious.

sticker of a stickman

from Sylvia popped up on the display. She asked urgently, “Isabel, where

Roland first and noticed that he was focused on the book he was reading. Then, she directed her

the mention of the word

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