MATT
I couldn’t breathe.
The walls of my apartment felt like they were caving in, crushing my chest as the sound of the dial tone replayed in my head over and over.
Nik’s venom. Masha’s silence.
She was gone.
The phone slipped from my hands, crashing to the floor, the shattered screen a mirror of the wreck inside me.
My body moved on autopilot as I grabbed the nearest thing that turned out to be a lamp and hurled it against the wall.
Glass exploded, the crash echoing in the silence.
“f**k!” I roared, sweeping everything off the table, bottles, papers, ashtray, everything scattering across the hardwood floor.
She’d told him. She f*****g told him.
My chest heaved, rage boiling inside me like acid. I tore through the apartment, destroying anything I touched until I caught sight of
