"The number you've called is not available, please leave a message or try again later."
I closed my eyes as the voice of the automatic secretary whispered into my ear.
'Figures,' I thought, ending the call and lowering my hand with the phone to my hips, trying to stuff it into my thigh pocket. Yet, when my hand found no fabric, I sighed and threw the phone on the bed.
It was all dark outside. The exact same time as when I led my first raid over in Fay's world.
We stepped out from the portal right at the darkest hour of the night, when one's sleep was deepest. And as burning of an issue I had to settle with Makary, there was hardly anything I could do to force him to pick the call up.
'And with the weight of what I'm about to ask of him…' I pressed my lips into a thin line, cutting off my sense of sight to focus more on the pleasure coming from below.
