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Author: CagalieYula
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By noon, I couldn’t pretend the walls weren’t closing in.

The silence after Leah’s visit wasn't the kind that gave you peace—it was the kind that echoed. Every word she’d said, every warning she dripped like poison, kept looping in my mind like a cursed song I couldn’t turn off.

Thiago was mine long before you walked into his life.

You’re carrying a weapon.

I stood in the shower longer than necessary, letting the water scald away the chill that had crept beneath my skin. But no matter how hard I scrubbed, I couldn’t rinse her off me.

When I stepped out, I found Thiago waiting.

He didn’t knock. He just stood there in the doorway, sleeves rolled, tie gone, shirt clinging to him like armor that no longer fit.

“You’ve been quiet,” he said.

“So have you.”

He stepped inside, shutting the door behind him like he was sealing us off from the world.

“You want to yell at me?” he asked. “Do it. I can take it.”

I didn’t yell. I dried my hands on a towel, then looked at him square in the eyes.

“Was
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