CHAPTER 074

DECLAN'S POV

Did I just hear her right, or were my ears deceiving me? My mind struggled to process her words as if they were foreign sounds bouncing around in my skull.

“What... what did you just say?” I asked, my voice uncertain, almost shaky. I needed to be sure, because surely, I couldn’t have heard her correctly.

From the other end of the phone, I could hear her soft sobs. She was crying. Not