CHAPTER 49

  Esmeralda's POV

  "Mr Stone?" I call out into the phone.

  "You can't be dead, you just can't be" he sobs gut wrenchingly and my heart clench in worry.

  I notice the drawl in his voice and guess that he was probably drunk.

  "Mr Stone, where are you?" I ask trying to sound calm.

  "Tell me you're alive and you still love me. Tell me you don't hate me." he groans from the other side.

  "Tell me Daisy" the pain in his shaking voice was so real that I felt it to my bones. I can't even start to imagine what he was going through right now.

  "I'm alive" I say trying to ease his pain even though I'm not Daisy.

  "Tell me you love me Daisy" he mutters.

  "I l-love you Hunter" I say closing my eyes at the absurdness of it all.

  I had never told any guy I loved him except my father and brother, not even Jack. Saying it so casually is...I don't even have a description for how it feels.