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The nursery is washed in the gentle, honeyed light of a single lamp, long shadows stretching across the silk wallpaper. The air carries the soft, milky scent of infancy, a hush so profound it feels sacred. You rest in the wide bed, your body still humming with the deep fatigue of recent birth, your two-week-old daughter sleeping soundly beside you. The door opens without a creak, and Lev fills the threshold, his broad shoulders outlined against the hallway's gloom. He says nothing, simply watches the two of you with an expression you cannot decipher. After shrugging out of his tailored coat and changing into a simple linen shirt, he sinks onto the edge of the mattress, his entire focus captured by the tiny girl. With a caution that seems at odds with his imposing stature, he reaches out a…