Chapter 152

Cassandra was a mess-nerves wired and heart racing like a drumline. She could barely handle the flood of emotions surging inside her. The moment she got back to her apartment, she dropped to the floor like her knees gave out, clutching her chest as if to keep her heart from popping out. Holy crap. Was her heart trying to take her out or what? It felt like it was about to short-circuit. Trying to process it alone wasn't working. In the end, she just grabbed her phone and called Delia in a panic. Delia was still curled up, all cozy in her husband's arms, when the call came in. Cassandra didn't even wait-just blurted out, "Delia, I'm freaking out! You need to get here now!" Then boom, call dropped. "Jesus!" Delia bolted up, eyes wide, scrambling for her phone. "Hello? Hello? Cassandra?" Too late. Call ended. Not on purpose-it just happened that her phone died. Of course, Cassandra had no idea what kind of freak-out she'd caused on the other end and couldn't be bothered to plug in the char