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62| A Lack In Trust
3rd Person POV
After he visited with his daughter, Matthew made a phone call to his godson, wasting no time after Stephanie secretly told him that something was up.
*RING RING RING*
“Hello?”
“Isaac. Have you talked to Stephanie?”
He heard a sigh on the other end of the phone. “I wish I hadn’t, honestly. But yes, I have.”
“We need to meet up, and I need to see those messages.”
They agreed on meeting at Isabella’s house, where Isaac had been living since his breakup with Whitney, and Matthew drove straight there from Stephanie's new home.
*KNOCK KNOCK KN-*
The door opened before Matthew could knock for a third time to reveal a tired-looking Isaac; his hair looked like he had raked his fingers through
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