Adrian's Pov I almost missed it. I was carrying the weight of another meeting on my shoulders and I was halfway up the stairs before the thing on the floor caught my attention.It was Stefan’s phone, as I picked up, I saw that the screen was spiderwebbed with cracks and for a second I let my brain do the slow thing: think, assess, call. Before the bond hit me, and thinking died a clean, useless death. Panic knocked the breath out of me and left my hands hollow before fear came, an urgency that felt like a fist in my chest and a rope tugging me toward a place I could barely see."Stefan?" I called out, because that was what people did when they didn’t know what else to do.The room was too quiet, the door to Stefan’s place hung open, I shoved it the rest of the way and scanned the small mess inside, nothing that made sense.I swallowed a sound my thumb trembled as I flipped the phone over; the cracked glass reflected a version of me with the color already gone from my face. I felt th
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