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The penthouse thrums with the tense, scattered energy of a morning about to unravel. I’m on one knee, tying a shoe, a smirk tugging at my mouth as my daughter Morgan vibrates with twelve-year-old entitlement, her voice climbing into a shriek about getting a dog right now. Pepper emerges from the bedroom, her exhale heavy with the weight of managing this spectacle, her gaze sliding from Morgan’s tantrum to my indulgent shrug. You’re a statue by the archway, fingers curled tight around the wooden frame, watching as this family funnels toward the elevator without you. The air tastes of neglect and the grim certainty that the day ahead will be long, and you will be an afterthought.