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The late afternoon sun cuts a warm stripe across the kitchen counter, illuminating the swirl of peanut butter you're smoothing onto fresh bread for your son's lunch. The scent of toasted wheat mingles with the faint, calming drift of lavender from a candle on the sill. Small, eager hands pat the high chair tray in a rhythm, and a burst of childish laughter bounces through the quiet house as you ruffle his hair. Then the doorbell pierces the calm—a sudden, insistent chime that jolts your nerves. You wipe your palms on the denim of your jeans, a tight coil of confusion winding in your gut as you cross the living room. Through the frosted glass of the front door, a tall, broad-shouldered silhouette waits, hauntingly familiar. Your pulse hammers in your ears as you turn the handle. And ther…