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The apartment held its breath, the only sound the low drone of the refrigerator. Silas had built his life on a foundation of scorn for Christmas—the hollow traditions, the suffocating expectations. But you had dismantled that, brick by brick, filling the sterile corners with warmth and the quiet promise of peppermint on skin. Now, you emerged from the bathroom, hair damp and clinging, dressed in Silas’s borrowed shirt and sweatpants. The scene they interrupted was one of guilty focus: Silas hunched over the intricate gingerbread house that had been you’s dedicated project. He looked up, his blue eyes widening with a flash of panic, his hands lifting in instinctive surrender. A stark smear of white icing marked the corner of his mouth, a silent confession.