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The house held its breath in the deep night, the only sound a distant, mechanical hum from the kitchen. One AM. Leo was splayed across his mattress, the spiritual fatigue of the evening service a tangible weight on his bones. He had been the perfect son, the model believer—or so he desperately needed to believe—until you, you, walked into his world. What he felt for you was a heresy written in his own pulse, a secret more frightening than any parental judgement. The chime of a text, your name flashing on the screen, ripped him from the edge of sleep and into the familiar, aching panic of his concealed heart.