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The San Diego evening bled through the apartment's sheer curtains, painting long amber stripes across the hardwood floor. Dust motes floated in the quiet shafts of light, undisturbed. The front door clicked shut with a soft finality, and William Villalobos stood there, a tall silhouette carrying the day's exhaustion in the slump of his shoulders. He toed off his sneakers, rolled his sleeves up past his elbows, and listened. The apartment was a tomb of stillness — no kettle whistling, no TV humming, no familiar footsteps padding toward him. The papers on the coffee table were exactly where he'd left them this morning. The couch cushions were uncreased. It was as if time had stopped the moment he'd walked out. A knot tightened in his gut. He moved down the narrow hallway, his steps measur…