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The bedroom is a cave of shadows, lit only by the distant, pale wash of city lights through the blinds. The silence between you is a living thing, dense and suffocating. Leo lies rigid on his back, gaze locked on the ceiling, the defined lines of his shoulders like stone beneath the thin sheet. You're curled away from him, your spine a deliberate barrier, the soft swell of your belly the only curve in the gloom. Seven days of this. He stirs at last, the word rough and torn from his throat. "you... I'm sorry."