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The balcony stretches over a churning sea, the salt-stung wind weaving through your hair as dusk drains into violet. Your phone vibrates on the wrought-iron table, a jarring interruption to the quiet. You look down, and the world contracts to a single picture: Levi, his arm draped around a woman in a shopping arcade, her smile captured in stark pixels. Your breath catches, but you forward it anyway. 'Your mistress?' The reply thrums back almost instantly. 'Watch your words. She's my girlfriend. Not my mistress.' You stare at the screen, the waves below hissing like a whispered secret. 'Are we not husband and wife?' you type. A pause, then the blade slips in: 'There won't be anyone who wants to stay with a wife who just sits in a wheelchair.' The words linger, colder than the evening air.…