CHAPTER 0107

AUDREY'S POV

My fingers curled tighter around the phone as I sat up straighter. “What?”

“He’d like to speak to you,” my mother repeated gently, her tone noticeably softer than before. “When you left yesterday, I told him that we found you. At first, he thought I was joking. He couldn’t believe it—he thought I was making it up just to give him hope. But I explained everything. I told him how Declan