But she still hung up the phone.
Joel Russo, who had just gotten off the plane and settled into the car, saw a trace of gloom pass over his handsome but tired face.
Did she fall asleep?
But she hung up rather quickly.
He stared at his phone for a few seconds, deciding to give up on calling her, when his phone suddenly rang again.
It was a video call.
The frown on Joel Russo's face instantly smoothed away as his long finger slid across the screen to answer the call,
and the woman's bare face, without a hint of makeup, appeared on the small phone screen.
"Did you just get off the plane?" her familiar voice rang out, clear and beautiful.
"Yeah," Joel Russo replied softly, his gaze fixed intently on her face.
Arabella Vanderbilt could see the tiredness on Joel Russo's face and felt a slight heaviness in her heart, "Then you should go back to the hotel and rest for a bit."
After a few seconds of silence, Joel Russo slowly began to speak again:
"Did you miss me?"