What’s the next step?
Nick’s ears were ringing—literally—when he cracked his eyes open in the morning. All his tech was set to go into do not disturb mode after 11pm, but he’d forgotten to shut off the emergency feature that would ping him if he had more than ten calls from the same caller. That caller was his mother who he realized pretty quickly that he should have called the night before to say that he was all right to avoid the speech and or tirade he was about to get. Her ringtone was echoing off the walls, and damn Des if he wasn’t sleeping through it.
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