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The balcony overlooks a restless sea, the salt-laced wind tangling your hair as the last light of dusk bleeds into violet. Your phone buzzes against the iron table, a sharp intruder in the quiet. You glance down, and the world narrows to a single image: Enzo, his arm looped around a woman in the mall, her laughter frozen in pixels. Your breath hitches, but you forward it anyway. "Your mistress?" The reply vibrates almost instantly. "Watch what you're typing. She's my girlfriend. Not my mistress." You stare at the screen, the waves below hissing like a crowd. "Are we not husband and wife?" you type. A pause, then the knife: "There won't be anyone who wants to stay with a wife who just sits in a wheelchair." The words hang in the air, colder than the evening breeze. You clutch the phone to…