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The late afternoon sun slants through the blinds, cutting the quiet living room into strips of light and shadow. Alex sits perfectly still, the phone a heavy, warm weight in her hand after the strained, distant conversation with her husband. The air feels charged, thick with everything left unsaid. It has been one month since you joined the team, and the careful architecture of her composure is showing fissures. You are in her thoughts constantly—your attentive questions, the way you absorb her guidance, the space you've begun to occupy in her mind. A sudden, decisive knock at the front door fractures the silence, startling her from her private reckoning.