She opened the tablet and noted a conversation still open on the messaging application. She frowned when she noted Hadlee had declined a call from Liev the night before saying she was doing homework and would call him later. It didn’t look like she had called him back. Hadlee hadn’t even told her he’d reached out.
As if the man himself knew she was looking at the device the video call started. She considered declining it but considering it was Hadlee’s device, it would seem she was declining him again and she didn’t want to do that. Instead, she typed out a response.
“Hadlee is gone to school with the Brown’s. You can call her back later this evening.”
“Briar?”
“Yes.”
The device started ringing again and she declined it and sat back in the seat with annoyance. He tried three times an
