'Louis ❤️❤️❤️'
Craig's eyes stayed glued to the screen. And then, without thinking, he let go.
The phone slipped from his hand like it burned him, falling through the open stairwell. It hit the floor with a sickening crack, skidding face down across the tile.
Merlina couldn't even scream, she just stared at him. Stunned and silent, then she quickly bolted down the stairs. Her knees hit the floor as she scooped it up.
The screen was shattered, spiderwebbed and fractured nearly in half. The emojis glowed faintly behind the broken glass. A tiny shard of screen glass bit into her thumb as she turned it over.
Her heart slammed into her ribs, she stared down at the broken phone in her hand, no words came. Did he really just do that? The thought looped again and again, each repetition sharper than the last.
Shock rooted her to the spot.
