"Don't answer it," Maria panicked from the wall, her voice cracking. "Yola, seriously, do not answer that. She knows your voice. She’s going to know you're freaked out.""If I don't answer, she’ll call the cops," Yolande muttered. Her brain was misfiring, trying to handle a breakup, a traumatized best friend, and an impossible man all at once. She looked up at Lucian, her voice dropping to an embarrassed, desperate whisper. "You need to calm down. Whatever you're doing to the air, stop it. If she hears a weird buzz or the call drops, she’s going to drive over here."Lucian stared at her, his jaw clenching. He clearly hated the phone, and he looked incredibly frustrated that a tiny piece of plastic had this much power over her. But seeing her look that stressed, he closed his eyes and took a slow, heavy breath.The suffocating, weird pressure in the alley immediately vanished. The freezing temperature leveled out, and the normal, boring sounds of suburban traffic leaked back into the s
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