The little schemes Claire Prescott had in this mess were quite apparent to the Prescott Family.
They merely indulged her silently.
...
After having dinner at her grandparents' house, Claire Prescott returned to her own home.
After washing up.
She lay on the bed in her pajamas, inexplicably recalling Ethan Lancaster's words: "You're in a different world than me, but not with Keane Lowell?"
The more she thought about it, the more upset she became.
She simply called Keane Lowell.
As soon as the call connected, the man's deep, magnetic voice reached her ears.
He just called her name once, and her agitated heart was instantly soothed by his voice, as though finding a retreat, and it calmed down all at once.
In fact, she didn't really have anything she wanted to say to him, she just wanted to hear his voice.
However, the background noise over there seemed a bit chaotic.
Claire Prescott asked, "Are you outside?"
