Who I Call Now

For fifteen years, Sophie Warren was the name Cass Monroe wrote in the box marked emergency contact. Then Sophie shared Cass’s private voice note with their friends. Cass never wanted anyone else to hear it. Their friendship ended. So when a staff form demands a replacement, Cass writes Adam Lee: the quiet history teacher downstairs who once helped during a flood. It feels ridiculous. Temporary. Until Cass collapses during a veterinary night shift and Adam is the one who gets the call. Adam knows how to help without taking over. He brings dry humour, terrible historical films, and the unnerving habit of asking what Cass actually wants. Embarrassment turns into companionship, then into an attraction Cass can no longer file under neighbourly kindness. But Sophie is telling their friends a version of the breakup that makes Cass look vindictive, and Cass knows her own words gave them reasons to be hurt. As Adam becomes the person she wants to call first, Sophie asks for one conversation and hints that Cass never knew the whole story.