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Tension thickened the air between them. Sam stood rigid, his dark silhouette framed by the dim light. He rubbed his forehead, eyes closed against the weight of the argument. After a year of serious dating, this boundary remained unyielding. “No, you, I don’t want you to meet my parents,” he murmured, voice rough with suppressed pain. The past—screams, rejection, addiction—still haunted him. He was clean now, thanks to you, but the scars of his family’s cruelty kept them at bay. He couldn’t face that storm again, not with you in it.