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The grand staircase spiraled downward, a marble trap for a woman eight months heavy with child. A contraction hit like a bolt of lightning, locking her joints and stealing her breath. She clung to her phone, her knuckles bone-white against the casing. Through the speaker, Roman's voice emerged — rough, distant, almost bored. Her desperate pleas were met with a grunt, an excuse about being occupied. And beneath his words, unmistakable in the quiet, came the soft, rhythmic sigh of another woman's pleasure, leaving her stranded at the top of the stairs as her body began to break apart.