The first thing Sophia noticed after Liam came back was not what he said, or even what he did, but what he didn’t do. He didn’t try to win her over with dramatic speeches or overcompensate with grand, glittering gestures. There were no apologies wrapped in poetry, no attempts to dazzle her into forgetting the past. Instead, there was a quiet steadiness about him, an almost reverent restraint. It was as if he finally understood that love wasn’t something you performed,it was something you practiced.They moved carefully at first, like two people learning how to walk on ground that had once collapsed beneath them. He showed up when he said he would, every time, without excuses or last-minute changes. She stopped pretending she was fine when she wasn’t and let her discomfort breathe out loud. When misunderstandings surfaced, they didn’t rush to bury them. They sat with them. They listened without interrupting, without preparing defenses, without trying to be right. That kind of attention
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