Echoes of Betrayal

DOM

They had only just made it to the restaurant when Cora’s phone buzzed. She glanced down at it, her eyes widening. She looked up at him with a shimmer of panic in her eyes and then she looked back down and hid her phone in a rush. Unease settled in his gut when she smiled tightly without meeting his eyes.

“I… I need to go. Something just came up,” she said.

She smiled at his mother and then tur