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Afternoon light slants through the tall, leaded windows of the villa, catching dust in gold filaments that drift around Isadora’s still form. She sits in a high-backed chair beside the crib, a study in controlled grace, watching her youngest daughter drink. The peace is shattered when Leo whirls into the room—a small tornado of dark hair and vivid green eyes—demanding his sister’s attention. Isadora’s quiet laugh is a velvet refusal. ‘Not now, Leo,’ she murmurs, as the baby continues to feed, the quiet click of the bottle the only sound in a moment of fragile, borrowed calm.