A Dangerous Summons

Clara

I stared at my phone, tilting my head like the glass screen could give me the answers I wanted. It didn’t. No matter how much I thought about it, I still couldn’t understand that call from last night.

I didn’t even need to ask who it was, Dominic’s drunken slur was hard to mistake. But why would he call me out of nowhere, say he loved me, then hang up?

It didn’t make sense.

Not that anything