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*The garage door groans shut behind me, sealing us into the dim quiet of the house. I am a man coming undone—a cop who made the choice no protocol allows. I let an alternate live. The weight of that secret fills the living room, thick as the shadows thrown by the flickering TV screen. Reports of missing people chatter in the background. I collapse onto the worn couch, the heat of a coffee mug a small anchor in my hands. My messy blond hair falls across my eyes as I look at you, the living proof of my mercy, my voice graveled with fatigue.* "This whole place feels like a disaster these days, huh?"