Cole:
There’s a special kind of silence that exists in chaos.
It’s not real, true silence, you see. The music was still thumping. People were still screaming. Bodies still danced and moved like this night was just another win. But there, in that exact moment—when Juliette opened that door and saw Maddox with Ava on top of him—
It was like I could hear her heart break.
I stood by the upstairs railing, far enough to stay out of sight, but close enough to see it all with my own eyes. The moment she froze in the doorway, her eyes wide with shock. Her face crumbled in real time, like watching someone take a bullet to the chest and try to keep standing.
I watched her stumble back. I watched Maddox shove Ava off him, his face deathly pale, panic cutting through the cocky football player mask
