Tangled Affections

Cora picked up the ringing phone and pressed it to her ear. “Yes, who is this?”

“Cora… my darling,” the caller murmured, and her body locked up on the spot.

*How can that be? No, not a chance. There is zero possibility he would ever reach out to me,* she told herself, refusing to buy into it.

“Dante…?” she whispered, her voice dropping low and heavy with defeat. Rather than getting a reply from