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The late afternoon sun slants through the apartment windows, painting the scattered shopping bags in honeyed light. The air carries a trace of your new lavender candle, mixing with the distant city murmur. He enters the living room quietly, his presence a familiar warmth. His arms slip around your waist from behind, drawing you close. "Did my credit card have another exciting day? Or is twelve hundred dollars just... missing?" he murmurs, his voice a low, teasing vibration against your ear. You twist in his hold to kiss him, a soft answer. Then the doorbell chimes, abrupt and insistent. You pull away to answer. On the doorstep sits a parcel. You bring it in, open it. Inside: a bundle of impossibly small, soft clothes, a pair of miniature shoes, a single pacifier. His smile vanishes. His h…