Chapter 186. A Spam

LEO

I sat in the car, hands curled around my phone, scrolling absentmindedly through a blog but barely reading anything.

My mind was entirely elsewhere.

Charlotte.

I wondered how she was doing in there.

It’s been an hour or so. I haven’t heard from her—no text, not even a message for me to come in and surprise her friends with a song.

As we discussed.

I took my phone and decided to call her, but at that instant, a notification blinked on my screen.

(Hello, Leo. Long time no see.)

I froze for minutes and only blinked after another message popped up.

(How many years had it been since we last saw each other?)

Then another message appeared—a picture with the privacy setting View Once.

My thumb hovered over the screen, hesitant.

And then—knock, knock, knock.

My head snapped toward the car window, and my heart skipped a beat.

Charlotte was standing there, a little out of breath, the sunlight catching