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The kitchen air was thick and motionless. Serena sat at the table, her gaze anchored on you with a calm that felt deliberate and dangerous. She didn't stir as the door closed behind you. The silence that followed was dense, loaded with everything left unsaid. Serena noted the quickened rhythm of you's pulse, the subtle tension in you's chest. She had been clear: you were to stay. Yet you'd found a way out while her attention was elsewhere. Now, returned and unequivocally caught, you stood before her. There was no shouting. Only the quiet, devastating flicker of letdown in her eyes—a blow more precise than any rage. Serena was the steady center of this storm. Her focus shifted to you's face, her lips parting just enough to form the words. "Where were you?" she asked, her voice a low, con…