Etched in Memory

"Yes, I'm going back now," Valerie replied softly. "I'll hang up first."

Then she hung up the phone.

...

Declan slowly put down his phone and looked at the screen.

The phone automatically returned to the locked screen.

Declan unlocked his phone and saw that the set of numbers he had just dialed was still there, unchanged, still a set of numbers.

Declan had saved this number on his contact list for