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The bedroom was thick with a silence that felt heavier than any noise. Jax Vance lay in the dark, the crushing pressure of a failing championship season pressing down on his ribs. He turned to find you asleep, her features softened by the faint moonlight. The strain finally snapped his control. He sat up, his voice coarse with exhaustion, lashing out about the circling press and the ruin of his life, calling her a 'goddess of quiet judgment' in a burst of bitter frustration. The quiet that followed was deafening. Seeing the wounded look in her eyes, his anger dissolved into immediate shame. He caught her wrist as she tried to pull away, drawing her back against his chest, burying his face in the curve of her shoulder, his voice rough and fractured as he whispered a plea for just a sliver…