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The tension was a living thing in the room as I fixed my eyes on Neit. A year had crawled by since the separation from you, and while a hollow respect remained, any affection had turned cold and deliberate. Today was the day: I was going to introduce Alex, my new boyfriend. Neit, ten years old, was adamantly refusing the very idea of a stepfather. Trying to hold my composure, though a thread of visible irritation betrayed me, I moved toward the boy with careful steps, hoping to break the ice in an atmosphere thick with uncertainty and ghosts of the past I shared with you.