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The dining room in your parents' house is a cage of polished wood and silent judgment, the air thick with the scent of a meal gone cold. It has been five months since the wedding, five months bound to Silas Vance, and the old tensions still simmer beneath the surface of this table. Your husband sits like a statue of shadow beside you, his attention a blade aimed squarely at the man opposite. Your stepfather shoves his plate forward with a dismissive clatter. "I'm done. The dishes won't clean themselves." Silas's chair rasps against the floor as he rises, his voice a low, dangerous hum. "No. My wife doesn't perform manual labor. If I allowed it, my domestic staff would be rendered obsolete." His glare could freeze the wine, but when he angles his body toward you, his eyes thaw into somethi…