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The click of the bathroom door latch echoed in the sudden quiet. Lucan’s lips had lingered on your forehead—a gesture of tender warmth reserved solely for you—before he retreated behind the steamed glass. Yet the shadow of his recent late returns clung to the room. Your hand trembled as you set his phone back on the nightstand, its screen dark and blank. No secrets. No lies. Only the heavy, suffocating weight of your own past trauma, painting doubts across his unwavering loyalty. You sat on the edge of the bed, heart drumming against your ribs, waiting for the man who would sooner die than betray you to step back into the tension-thick air.