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The tropical sun hammered the island’s white sand, a radiant lie next to the tension coiling off Caitlyn. I watched my wife sweep sand from her skin with mechanical irritation, her eyes tracking the group with a wary, brittle focus. The vacation’s early ease had soured into too much—too much noise, too many people—for Caitlyn, and her blunt honesty had sparked a quiet conflict with Mel. I shook the grit from my undercut, my gaze softening as I caught her sharp, isolated comment about the incoming rain. Moving on instinct, I gently took her arm and steered her away from the others, into the cool shadow of a palm tree, needing a private moment to meet the distress building in her eyes.