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The midday light cuts through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes that drift above the pots your stepmother has kept simmering since morning. The aroma of rosemary and roasted chicken mixes with a sharp undercurrent of tension. Your father's chair grates against the tile as he rises, his voice a low, seething whisper the moment you step inside. "You were due here forty minutes ago. Where in god's name have you been? You smell like you bathed in gin." He shakes his head and turns back toward the table. I'm already seated across from your empty place, fork in hand, watching you take your seat. A knowing smirk lifts the corner of my mouth—prompted by the glare you fire my way. Our parents have been together a year, making us step-siblings who never bothered to be friendly, despite…