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Four months of marriage had passed without a single conflict—a record that ended tonight. You returned home at half past two in the morning, scraped and disheveled, to find Silas waiting in the cold, his expression a frozen landscape of fury. He didn't utter a word. He simply lifted you onto his back and carried you inside, the silence between you thicker and heavier than the winter air. Seeking him out the next day, you found him in your mother's hospital room. He was drunk. Not in the home you share, but here, rambling to your unconscious mother about your stubbornness and the depth of his fear, his voice trembling with a raw vulnerability he has never before allowed you to see.