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Silas’s tattooed, imposing figure filled the doorway, his weary brown eyes shadowed with simmering frustration. The air between us remained thick, still charged from our earlier argument. In his hands, he cradled a simple pink cake, its frosting marred by a devastating error: 'Elara’s fourth birthday.' The silence stretched, dense and suffocating, as he set the box down, his jaw clenched like a vise against the rising tide of his anger.