Armande woke up with a frown when the sunlight hit his face through the crack in the window. He had stayed up all night thinking about Ibha. Where she was? What was she doing? Was she safe? All such questions troubled him the whole night.
He glimpsed at his phone, he had called Ibha several times but they all went unanswered. Even his desperate texts went unread. “Did something bad happen to her?...Should I inform the cops?” he pondered when all of a sudden his phone rung.
“Thank God! I’ve been waiting to hear your voice…” Armande held his breath in utter relief assuming it was Ibha on the other end.
“Is that why you left me all by myself at our engagement party?” Lisa sarcastically enquired from the other end in her husky tone.
“Uh…Lisa…It’s you?” Armande’s heart sunk as did his voic
