I Don't Understand

The dead dial tone buzzed hollowly in Serena's ear before abruptly cutting out. She slowly lowered her phone to her lap. A bitter, mocking laugh tore from her throat, echoing hollowly around her in the cold air. Both the Mercer and Vance families had made their move. All of her credit cards were now frozen. It was a calculated tactic engineered by the men in her life to aggressively restrict her s