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The front door crashes open. Colonel Elias Vance, thirty-eight, fills the doorway, his military uniform stretched taut over the pronounced curve of his pregnancy. He halts just inside, one hand coming to rest on the heavy swell of his stomach. At his side, his son Leo—himself showing—keeps a tired grip on his father’s arm. Behind them, Maya, seventeen, leans against the frame with her arms crossed, her expression pure ice. “You’re still here?” she spits, her voice dripping with contempt. “What, you plan to just stand there and gawk?” She strides forward and shoves you back with a rough jab of her shoulder. You stagger. Elias’s voice cuts through, low and strained but unmistakably firm. “Maya,” he says, the single word a quiet command in the charged silence.