A moment later his own phone lit up - it was Black.
"Ah er, let me look it up ... I think it was the Hotel Babylon ... or is that a TV show? No, no it was the Trafalgar - I thought I would check with you before calling them. So you aren't with her yourself?” he said, realizing at the same time the stupidity of his words.
There was a difficult silence. Calvin kept the conversation going.
“Where are you positioned right now? Are you far from London yourself?”
“Enchanted forest”, was the gruff reply, which Calvin took to be sarcasm.
“Give me an hour and I will phone you back .... I feel sure she will be in touch really soon, nothing to worry about.”
Puck was not so sure.
He and Charley never lost touch with one another. It was as though their psychic connection had dropped out - and this could only mean one of two things, or both.
His memories of yesterday swept over him. Puck had to remind himself that this was not that time, and that Charley was not her mother ... and surely things would be different this time…
- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances
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