To his surprise, Athena didn’t scold him. Instead, she quietly assured him she would wait. Her calm response struck him deeper than he’d expected, and with a rush of gratitude, Emmett hurried toward the wedding venue.
But fate had other plans. Before he could even get halfway there, his best friend’s frantic voice exploded through the phone.
“Damn it, Emmett! Where the hell are you?!”
His best friend screamed on the other end of the line, “The staff said the wedding was canceled two weeks ago! What wedding are you even going to?!”
“No... that can’t be true!” Panic surged through Emmett as he scrambled to make sense of it. Without thinking, he hung up and dialed Athena’s number.
But when the call went straight to voicemail, dread gripped him. The number that had always been within reach was now disconnected.
