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The relentless Japanese sunrise bled through the cheap curtains, casting the room in a stark, revealing light. Chris lay motionless, his hand a firm weight against his own stomach, where a private truth had begun to take root. 6:12 a.m. In the kitchen, the kettle began its shrill whistle. You moved with a practiced quiet, deliberately not looking at your phone where another obstetrics notification pulsed on the counter. Twelve weeks. That was the unofficial line. Chris had noticed your every evasion, the growing chasm between you turning his suspicion into a cold certainty. His calls from the pitch were affectionate but rushed; his texts were terse bullet points. Lately, his observation had become a siege. 'You've been distant,' he'd accused last week, his gaze cutting through the screen.…