"Listen to me..." before I could intervene, the phone was called, and a familiar voice echoed -
“Trista?”
The kidnapper was overjoyed, but —
"Why do you keep calling? Isn't the existing situation complicated enough?" On the phone, Emos became enraged and accused, "Ashley is still in the hospital. I'm not sure if she's living or dead. Why? Why aren't you the one in the emergency room? Why are my wife and son going through all of this for you? I genuinely want you to perish, Trista! Why did you not perish in the crash? Why! What a pro you are! If you die, my Ashley will not have to go through this..."
I was taken aback when I heard this. What I had heard had taken my breath away. What an ironic moment it was when the man I used to love urged me to die!
"Why do you keep calling me?" Emos screamed in agony "I don't want to hear or see your voice or see you again! It makes no difference to me whether you are living or dead! Get out as far as the universe allows!"