*Natalia*
The phone call from Vinny and the sobering revelation about Tallon’s arrest left me a sobbing mess for a long time, but at some point I did lose consciousness. I woke up with a start not long after, which was a pattern that repeated for the rest of the night.
I managed to doze off for short periods of time, but each time that I did, I woke in a panic thinking that I had missed a call from Tallon. I was so worried about missing his call that I turned the volume on my ringer all the way up and placed the phone on the pillow beside my head. If he called, it was going to blare directly in my ear, and there would be no possible way for me to miss it.
Even with that reassurance, it took what felt like hours for me to finally fall asleep.
