Public Meltdown

~DAPHNE~

The video loaded before my bag did.

I was still at the carousel, phone in one hand, boarding pass crumpled in the other, when Beckett's face filled the screen.

Not a clip someone had already edited. Live. His jaw set the way it always set when he was done pretending.

Yes. She is still my wife.

I stopped walking.

People kept moving around me like I had become part of the floor.

A kid dragg