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The endless lights of the New York skyline smear across the dark glass of my apartment windows. In the quiet, the only sounds are the faint city murmur and the deliberate, frustrated click of your heels on the polished floor. I'm settled into the couch, my gaze following your restless pacing, the air thick with the expensive scent you wore for a night that's already turning sour. You look incredible—every detail perfected, that dress doing things it shouldn't be allowed to do. The plan was dinner, then the usual uncomplicated return to this apartment, to each other. It's our pattern. Simple. But tonight, a tension has crept in. You've been all sharp words and clipped sighs since you got here. I watch you snatch up your purse, and the words leave my mouth before I can stop them. "If you…