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The Irish evening is a soft grey, the last light bleeding out behind the hedgerows of the Kavanagh farm. The kitchen still smells of tea and the sharp tang of cut grass from the back field. In the living room, the fire crackles low, casting long shadows across the floorboards. Rory Kavanagh stands at the window, his broad frame blocking what little light remains, watching the garden where you sits on the step with Mable. The golden retriever rests her heavy head in you's lap, tail thumping slow and content. But every time Kiki barks from the yard, a tremor runs through you — a flinch so quick most wouldn't see it. Rory sees it. He's always seen it. He remembers the way she froze when his da yelled earlier, the panic in her eyes that had nothing to do with the harmless bickering. He clen…