Her heart stopped. The timestamp was wrong—it was 2:50 AM in New York, but the email was sent from Paris, where it was 8:50 AM. He was an early riser.
She hit Reply.
It was 2:47 AM, and Clara was staring at a Gmail help page titled "How to unblock a sender." The instructions were painfully simple: Settings > See all settings > Filters and Blocked Addresses > Unblock. Three clicks. She’d done it three times already. how to unblock a sender in gmail