When his cell phone first rang and Jaxson saw her name on the screen because, obviously, he hadn’t yet gotten around to deleting her number, he simply hadn’t believed it. It never crossed his imagination that she would ever call him after she literally shut the door in Hunter’s face.
Jaxson had stared at his phone until it stopped ringing and the notification of a missed call flashed on the screen of his iPhone. Almost a full minute later, his phone was lit up again with a text message.
Chloe: Hey.
One word. Three letters. Jaxson stared at them like the biggest insult he had ever received in his life. It bordered on familiarity and friendship, two things Chloe and Jaxson had none. She had shut the door on his friendship and interest in knowing her. And now she was calling his phone and
