I Nannied for a Widower Who Plays a Voicemail Meant for Me novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Phone
Lena's smile stayed where it was.
"Jude," she said into the microphone, kindly.
"Sit down, honey.
"You're upset."
"I am," Jude said.
He walked down the aisle between the tables with the phone in his hand.
Nobody spoke.
The boy with the guitar stood frozen at the side of the stage.
Jude held out the cable from the band's sound board with one raised eyebrow.
The boy took the phone, plugged it in, and stepped back like a man leaving a fire.
Jude turned to face the hall.
"You all know my wife made a call on the night she died," he said.
"Twenty months, I've thought it went to nobody.
"A girl I hired last month heard it by accident, and it was her old number.
"So I want you to hear what Callie said on the second call that night.
"The one I couldn't open."
He pressed play.
The speakers hissed.
A phone began to ring, loud in the gym, and the hall seemed to lean toward it.
Click.
"You've reached Lena Pelletier," a bright voice said, from two hundred people's worth of speakers.
"I'm not available.
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