A Stranger's Embrace

GENEVIEVE.

It had been ten grueling hours since we left the lecture hall to head to Harrison’s place. Ten agonizing hours of checking my phone every five minutes. Ten hours without a single message from Dante, without even a brief text to confirm my schedule. My deepest fears festered and multiplied in that digital silence. He was tired of me. He had gotten his fill of my naive infatuation and fi