CHAPTER 56
CALLIE
BLOCK ROADS
My heart was resting right on my throat as I moved my fingers along the screen of my phone, searching for Marco’s contact. The moment I came across it, I tapped on it, letting my fingers hover over the dial button before I finally dialed it.
I placed the phone on the loudspeaker since I wasn't the only one in the room that wanted to reach out to him. It began to ring…. Until it stopped.
I exchanged gazes with Santiago and he nodded his head, urging me to try the number again. I did.
Marco’s number rang again. And again. And again.
I stared at my phone screen until my eyes stung, my thumb trembling as I hit redial for maybe the twentieth time. The same thing kept happening. It would ring once, sometimes twice, then straight to voicemail. My stomach
