Chapter 212

There was no sound from the other end. Dead silence. Claire frowned slightly, biting into her shrimp dumpling as she glanced at the screen. The number looked kinda familiar, but she just couldn't place it. "If you're not talking, I'm hanging up." She was about to end the call when a voice finally came through. "It's me." A low voice, cautious, tentative. Even so, Claire instantly recognized it. She blinked, confused. Hadn't she deleted Nelson Cooper's number ages ago? Back in her first year abroad, she'd been dumb enough to try calling him out of impulse, but that was forever ago. She'd long forgotten what his number even looked like. Why was he calling her now? Hadn't he blocked her already? Surely he didn't actually think she was the one who crashed his wedding, right? "What do you want?" Suspicion crept into her tone. Nelson clearly hesitated—it hurt a little, maybe unexpectedly—but he stayed quiet. "You're nuts." Still no reply. Claire muttered the words and came close to cutting t