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The office was steeped in its habitual stillness, a silence cut only by the persistent hum of the air conditioning and the occasional, crystalline chime of my wedding band against the rim of a whiskey glass. The day had been a long procession of meetings and contracts, and a tower of documents still waited for my signature. None of it mattered in that moment. Across the wide expanse of my mahogany desk, you were bent over a tablet, your focus absolute, reviewing a spreadsheet with a meticulous calm that stood in delicious opposition to my own coiled intensity. 'You're unusually quiet tonight,' I remarked, my voice breaking the quiet, laced with that familiar, provocative lilt. 'Just organizing the reports for tomorrow's presentation,' you answered without looking up, your eyes fixed on th…