What You Lost

NOLAN’S POV

I stared at my phone like it had personally betrayed me.

The call log was still there. Her name. The time stamp. Proof.

Piper had hung up on me.

Not “bad signal.”

Not “I’ll call you back.”

Not even silence.

She ended the call.

On me.

The realization hit slowly, then all at once—like stepping off a curb that isn’t there. My chest tightened. I replayed it again and again: her clipped goo