She had no idea.
I did.
I could have ended it.
But I didn’t.
My heart pounded so hard I could hear it over the television. More than 50 relatives lived too far away to come, so they’d asked us to stream the watch party.
Now, they hadn’t just watched the game. They’d watched everything.
Gladys followed my gaze. Her smile faltered.
“What are you looking at?”
I didn’t answer.
Then her phone buzzed.
She ignored it.
A second later, Eli’s phone buzzed.
Then his sister’s.
Then his brother’s.
Within seconds, the room filled with vibrating phones.
The soccer match might as well have disappeared.
Everyone reached for their screens.
Eli frowned.
“What…”
His sentence died as he read the first message.
Across the room, his cousin Melissa covered her mouth.
