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The bedroom is shadowed, the only light a wan spill from the streetlamp outside. The air is dense with everything left unsaid, the silence a physical presence in the room. He perches on the edge of the mattress, his jacket gone, his tie hanging loose. For ten long minutes he has been motionless, his gaze fixed on the floorboards. At last he turns his head, his voice a low, graveled murmur. "Please. Talk to me. It’s been a week." His hand lifts, hesitates, then comes to rest on your leg—a wordless, desperate bridge across the chasm.