#Chapter 153: Can’t Sleep

Aria’s POV I didn’t know what possessed me to say yes. Catching up with an old friend was great, but 11pm was pretty late for a phone call. Maybe I just wanted a distraction. With everything going on with Liam and Joanna and now Markus, I felt overwhelmed and trapped. All night, I’d been waiting for Liam to come home, but he wasn’t here, and it didn’t seem like he was going to arrive any time soon. Samuel was safe. He had taken my previous rejection well. I’d told him I was in a complicated situation. Isabella was likely already asleep. Unless I wanted to sit here in silence, I had no one else I could talk to. So I found myself texting back, Okay. Samuel called almost immediately, and I answered. “Hello?” “I hope it’s not too late,” he said. “It is late, but I couldn’t sleep,” I admitted. “Me, either,” he said. “Sometimes I swear my house is too quiet.” “I know what you mean,” I said, glancing at the empty half of the couch where I had thought Liam would have be