Damian POVThe moment I step inside, the silence hits me first, the house is dark, but I don’t bother turning on the lights. I don’t need them. Something is wrong and I can feel it in my bones. It’s too early for Liana to be asleep even on her worst nights, she always leaves the lamp glowing low in the living room, a soft beacon meant for me but tonight, there’s nothing.Just darkness and a cold, hollow stillness that settles deep in my gut as I move down the hallway.I already know what I’m going to find before I even reach the bedroom.Still, it doesn’t stop the blow when I see it, everything is gone, her clothes, her shoes, her scent, all of it and Matthew’s things too.The room looks wrong stripped bare and unfamiliar, like someone peeled the life out of it and left only the shell behind. I stand there, staring, trying to make sense of what I’m seeing, but it takes a full minute before it truly sinks in.She left, she actu
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