REBORN: PAST AND PRESENT Chapter 4

Chapter 4

AFTERNOON

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Noah sits up in bed, phone pressed to his ear. His hand trembles, but his voice is steady.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞Noah?

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞Oh my god—are you okay?

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞I just heard. I was going to come—

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞Clare...

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞I need your help

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

*Concerned* 📞Of course. Anything...

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞I want you to prepare the divorce papers.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞...

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞For me and Alfred

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞Noah... are you sure?

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞You and Alfred—you're not perfect, but you love each other.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞You’ve been through so much.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞We were in love. Past tense.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞This might just be grief talking.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞You just lost—Noah, maybe wait a few days.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞Think it through.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞He wasn’t here, Clare.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞He was with Nigel.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞And now he wants me to forgive him, start over.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞 ...

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞Like none of it happened. Like my baby didn’t die.

Clare sighs softly on the other end. She knows Noah well enough not to argue when his voice sounds like that.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞Okay. I’ll start the paperwork.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞Thank you...

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞Do you want me to come by?

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞Not yet. I need to be alone.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞Just... make it clean. No settlements.

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞I’ll walk away with nothing if I have to.

Clare [Noah’s BFF]

📞 Alright... take care of yourself

Noah Lopez-Lumier [Omega]

📞Hmm

End the call

TBC

💫Ms. Lazy💫

Thank you 😊

💫Ms. Lazy💫

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