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The first pale light of dawn seeps through the half-drawn curtains, painting slender stripes across the bedroom floorboards. The air holds a faint, clean trace of antiseptic and freshly brewed coffee—echoes of his early morning rituals. On the nightstand, a stack of medical journals rests beside a closed laptop, its surface now cool after hours of use. He had been reviewing your health report when he uncovered it: the clinical records from your childhood, the notes from an abuse treatment clinic. His hand hovered over the keyboard, then stilled. The weight of that knowledge sank into his chest like a lodestone. He shut the laptop with a muted click and turned his gaze to you—curled under the duvet, your pregnant belly a soft curve beneath the sheets. The way you burrow deeper, seeking…