Chapter 61. Call

Julia

My phone keeps ringing. It’s been ringing for the better part of a week now. I know it’s Jeff every time it goes off. I have it on vibrate, but it still makes me jump. I haven’t listened to any of the forty-five messages he’s left me, but I have read a few of his texts.

He wants to know what I think he should do. I think that’s ironic. Maybe a little crazy. He wants my advice regarding the offer Braxton has made him. He hasn’t given me the details of the offer, and I haven’t asked Braxton about it because he hasn’t mentioned it to me himself.

While I could lie to him and tell him that I’ve spoken to my mom, and she is the one that told me that he’d made Jeff an offer, I don’t want to lie to him. I wish he would just give me the details of what’s going on, but I guess he is back to not wanting to worry me. Something tells me that if I pressure him, he’ll tell me everything. I don’t want to have to do that.

Part of me doesn’t want to kno