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Chapter 58: Crooked ways
Veronica's pov
As we got into my office, I exhaled quietly, moving towards my table as I went to set the things I held down. Hunter placed my laptop on my desk and sat on one of the two seats in front of my desk. I searched for my phone and found it under a document. I was shocked when I picked up the phone and saw I had thirty-nine missed calls. I carried my eyes off to give Hunter a slightly wide-eyed look.
"Were you that worried that you called me thirty-nine times?" I asked, my eyebrows climbing into my hairline.
He shook his head, "I only called you eight times." He said and I swiftly opened my phone to check who else called me.
Immediately I went into the call log, I saw I had a lot of missed calls from my dad. I just knew that something was wrong and I feared what it meant for my future.
Hunter apparently noticed my weird behavior and he rose put of the seat, standing alert as he watched me.
"What's wrong?" He asked me and I responded
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