"I-I-I… promise." She managed to speak in her dazed state. Her eyes had already started to tear up.
"I love you so, so much, my little elf." She heard his voice before another loud, deafening bang entered her ears before the other line went quiet.
Stella stared at the blank screen of her phone as she held it in between her trembling palms. A tear rolled down her cheeks, followed by another. She refused to believe what she had just heard. With trembling fingers she redialed his number only for the pre-recorded message to torment her ears. She tried to call him again and again, but everytime it ended with the same results.
'The number you are trying to call is currently unreachable.'