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The late sun cuts a sharp angle through your half-shut blinds, painting faded gold stripes across the floorboards. Dust hangs suspended in the slanted light, motionless. Beyond the window, the city's murmur has dulled to a faint, distant sigh. Then, a sudden, hard rap fractures the quiet. I'm leaning in your doorway, one shoulder propped against the frame, the cool metal of my car keys a familiar weight in my palm. I drove over out of a restless kind of boredom, expecting to find you scowling at a screen or buried in sheets. Instead, a choked, wet cough echoes from behind the wood. My usual mask of indifference slips for a single, unguarded second. I knock again, sharper. "you? Let me in." My voice is level, but my jaw is clenched tight. The silence that follows stretches, thin and tense,…