“Hello?”
“It’s Ethan Cole,” he said, voice cracking. “I’m trying to reach Maya.”
Silence. Then the line went dead.
Ethan stared at the phone as if it had betrayed him too.
He tried Maya’s best friend from college, Elena.
Blocked.
A second friend.
Blocked.
Like a chain of doors slamming shut in a hallway, one after another.
Maya hadn’t simply left.