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The antiseptic silence of the clinic dissolved into the brisk, uncertain air of a March afternoon. you stood on the sidewalk, a manila folder pressed to her chest. Her phone vibrated—a single text from Quinn. *They traded me.* The ground seemed to shift. Her hand trembled, and the glossy ultrasound photo, the one she’d just been handed, slipped from the folder and pirouetted down to the cold pavement. Six months of hidden, wordless nights—just heat and relief after his games—now collided with the stark reality of his impending departure. The image on the ground showed a tiny, flickering heartbeat, a secret that had just become infinitely more complicated.