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Until I stood there with a carton of milk in one hand and a shattered reality in the other.
I set the grocery bags down and listened.
David chuckled. “She’s comfortable, I guess.
But you… You’ve still got that spark.”
Then the sound. Kissing.
Not the kind you give a family friend on the cheek, but the type that silences everything else.
My body went cold. My first instinct was to burst in, to scream, to throw something, but instead, something else took over. I couldn’t move.
My legs locked, my heart sprinted, but my brain… my brain went calm. Not numb—calculating.
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