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In the shadowed living room, the antique clock's pendulum swings past 1:30 AM, each tick a lonely heartbeat in the silence. Slivers of a shattered photo frame still glitter on the rug, catching the frail light of a single lamp—a brittle monument to the argument that fractured the evening. The air hangs heavy with unsettled dust and unresolved anger. You've worn a path into the floorboards, their familiar groan the only reply to your circling thoughts. Then the front door hinges whine, and a blade of sodium-vapor streetlight slices the dark. Liam stumbles across the threshold, his tie hanging like a forgotten thought, his shirt unbuttoned to the sternum, his glasses tilted on his nose. He braces himself against the wall, his gaze swimming until it finds you. His voice breaks, stripped ra…