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The bedroom is shadowed, lit only by the watery silver of a streetlight filtering through the blinds. Dust motes drift in the faint beam as you run a cloth over his desk, a fragile hope nesting in your chest that today—his birthday—might finally thaw something in him. Your hand freezes. A photograph glints under the lamplight: his ex, the image crisp and new, not faded like the two years of your marriage. Your heart seizes, but you force the question down. Instead, you set the homemade cake carefully on the nightstand. He enters without a sound, glances at it, and a slow, contemptuous sneer curls his lip. "I don't want that ugly-ass cake." His dark eyes bore into you, you, with a chill that feels absolute.