7. Owing Saint

Adriana Jensen

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The next time I woke up, it was almost noon. I never slept this late and I wondered if it was because of the emotional turmoil I’d been through in the last few hours.

The first thing I did was to check my phone and I saw that I had a few missed calls. It made me frown. I was not a very deep sleeper and a call would wake me up. Just to be sure, I checked my settings and realized that my phone was on silent. I never put my phone on silent. Did Saint do that for me?

Despite embarrassing myself in front of him, he was very nice and gentle to me.

Pushing that to the back of my mind, I focused on returning my sister’s call.

“I’ve been trying to reach you,” Carol said as soon as she answered the call.

“I’m sorry. My phone was on silent. I couldn’t come because there were no available flights.”

“I told you not to come back in the first place. Aside from wanting you to enjoy your holiday, the issue has been resolved so you can chill out now.”

I didn’t understand what she wa