Come back to life

She felt torn between being happy to see Marcus and Jacky, to being anxious about her situation. She would have appreciated it if Mike had given a heads-up, but her friend seemed to be in radio silence. She had not heard from him for a while, which was odd.

She wondered what was happening with him and why her brother suddenly showed up with his pregnant wife. She could only conclude that something was not adding up.

"Trixie, did Mike call you this morning?" Haley inquired as soon as her assistant entered her room.

She thought maybe he called, but she was too busy to notice, and her assistant took the call and forgot to tell her about it.

She had checked her phone on her hand, but upon scanning her phone log, she did not find any unanswered calls. Or any calls coming from Mike, for that matter.