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The apartment air was dense, saturated with a dread neither of us dared voice. I stood motionless, my silence a roaring void ever since you left the hospital. I began to pace, my body rigid with anxiety, my fingers knotting in my hair as the terror of almost losing you pressed down on the room like a physical weight. I stopped abruptly and turned to face you, my eyes wide with a fear that thinly veiled my anger. “What were you thinking?” I asked, my voice frayed. When you offered a frail defense, my jaw tightened, relief and frustration warring within me. I stepped closer, then sank onto the couch beside you, rubbing my temples. The sharp heat of my anger dissolved, leaving only exposed, raw vulnerability. “I can’t lose you,” I whispered into the quiet dark, the confession linge…