Date = 7 December Place = San Francisco (Damion’s house / UCSF Medical Center) POV – Melaena “Fuck.” The phone slips from my fingers and clatters onto the floor, the sound sharp and final. I don’t move. I can’t. My heart doesn’t just stop — it shatters, splitting wide open like it’s been waiting for this exact blow. My knees give out, and I sink to the floor, clutching my chest as if I can physically hold the pain in place, keep it from ripping me apart. It doesn’t work. Nothing works. With trembling hands, I pick up the phone again. The photo fills the screen. Chloe. Naked. Smiling like she won something. One hand behind her head, the other strategically placed — barely — over her pubic area. Her double-Ds are completely uncovered, full and unapologetic, her n*****s darker th

