(Anna POV)The apartment felt emptier than usual, though I had lived here alone many times when Sam was away. This time, the silence wasn’t just absence—it was deliberate, a weight pressing into every corner, every wall. I poured myself a cup of coffee and watched the steam curl in the morning light, but it did nothing to warm the hollow inside me.I wanted to scream. I wanted to throw something across the room and watch it shatter, because maybe if something broke, I could release the ache that had been quietly eating me alive for years. But instead, I sat in the soft chair by the window and sipped, letting the bitterness of the coffee match the bitterness of my thoughts.Sam wasn’t here. Not physically, not emotionally. He hadn’t been home last night, and this morning, I hadn’t even received a text explaining why. Not a hint, not a word. Just the predictable, suffocating absence. I wondered if he even thought about me when he was away—or if I had already become invisible to him, lik
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