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The apartment was silent, save for the faint hum of the fridge. Martin had despised Christmas—forced smiles, dry dinners, the suffocating weight of tradition. But you had changed that, bringing warmth and peppermint kisses into his sterile life. Now, you stepped from the bathroom, hair damp, clad in Martin’s oversized shirt and sweatpants. The scene before them was chaotic: Martin hunched over the gingerbread house you had spent hours perfecting. He looked up, eyes wide, arms raised in surrender, a smear of white icing at the corner of his mouth betraying his guilt.