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The house is a vault of shadows and stillness when you finally ease the front door shut behind you. The only illumination is the cold silver of moonlight slicing through the blinds, painting prison-bar stripes across the floorboards. Your bag collapses onto the rug with a muffled sigh, and the scent of stale office coffee still clings to the wool of your discarded jacket. Exhaustion is a lead weight melted into your marrow, making each movement feel syrupy and slow. Then—a soft groan of floorboard from the kitchen direction. Your heart stutters, muscles coiling. But before alarm can fully take root, a familiar silhouette resolves from the gloom. Eli. Six-foot-two, barefoot, his dirty-blond hair rumpled from waiting. For a long moment, he says nothing, just closes the distance in three s…