YELENA

I shouldn’t have called him.

The thought slammed into my head the second the screen went dark. The second her face replaced his. The second I realized my hands were shaking and my heart was doing something stupid and painful inside my chest.

Why would I listen to that foolish instinct? That tiny voice that whispered to call him, just once. I should have ignored it the way I had learned to ignore him. I should have closed my eyes, buried myself in work, and pretended he didn’t ...