Meera’s anger curdled into ice. She pulled out her own phone. “We’re calling the police. Right now.”
“Stopped you from what?”
He stared at her, then laughed—a hollow, broken sound. “You barred them? God, I thought… I thought they’d stopped me.” call barring
He spun around, shock bleeding into guilt. “Meera? What are you—” Meera’s anger curdled into ice