*Love*

Val took a deep breath, her heart sinking further in the painful silence.

She didn’t realize how long she’d been standing there until her fingers started cramping from fisting them for too long. The phone on the couch had long since gone dark in her hand, and the ache in her chest had started to blend with the dull throb of the headache she’d ignored since morning.

She walked back up the stairs like she was sleepwalking. The room still looked like it had minutes ago—glass on ...