Chapter 36: Ransom

I swallowed hard, at a loss for words. Why on earth hadn't I charged my phone? Goddammit. Helpless, I glanced at the driver and tried, "Sir, do you happen to have a phone charger?" "No. But if you need to make a call, you can use my phone," the driver said. I would have loved to, but I hadn't memorized a single number. Not Esmeralda's, not Maggie's, not even Leila's. Everything lived inside my dead phone.  The only numbers I still remembered were my parents' and Stephanie's, which did me no...