I was waiting for my train when a man approached me—middle-aged, tired eyes, suit wrinkled like he’d slept in it. He cleared his throat and asked softly, “Could I borrow your phone to call my wife? Mine just died.”
Something in me hesitated. You don’t just hand your phone to a stranger in a crowded station. But there was something desperate, almost trembling, in his voice. So I unlocked it and placed it gently into his hands.
He stepped a few feet away and made a short call—no raised voice, no tears, just a quiet, aching softness. “I’ll be there soon… I love you,” he whispered before hanging up. Then he walked back, gave me a grateful nod, and handed the phone back like it was made of glass.
“That means more than you know,” he said before disappearing into the crowd.
It wasn’t until later, on the train, that I noticed something odd. In my messages, there was a new text—he’d sent his own number a blank message. A little strange, but I shrugged it off. Maybe he’d tapped something by accident.
Two weeks passed. I’d almost forgotten about the man in the wrinkled suit.
Then one evening my phone buzzed.
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