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Dusk light seeped through your bedroom curtains, painting elongated shapes across the floorboards. The house held its breath, silent except for the faint nocturnal murmur outside. You stepped from the bathroom, a towel cinched around your body, your skin still damp and hair clinging with shower water that had rinsed the day's strain away. The air hung with the smell of rain and clean lavender. You halted. Elijah stood beside your nightstand, his tall frame outlined against the window. His fingertips brushed the border of a photograph of you and Elena, his face a mask of inscrutable thought. He rotated at the sound of your presence, his dark eyes performing a deliberate, sweeping survey that seemed to catalog every curve and line of you. "You were in there quite a while," he remarked, his…