Adrian POVIt does not happen all at once, and that is the part that stays with me afterward, because there is no signal, no command, no visible break that marks the moment the situation turns. Nothing announces the shift, nothing declares that conflict has ended or that resolution has begun. The room remains the same, the people remain where they are, the fractured structure around us continues existing exactly as it did minutes earlier, yet something changes beneath all of it, something quieter and far more difficult to define, because what moves is not the system.It is Marcus.He does not move toward me.He moves toward the child.Everyone notices it immediately, though no one says anything and no one interrupts the moment as it unfolds. Lydia stays where she is beside me, her attention fixed on him with the same stillness she has carried since the truth broke open between all of us, while Damien remains silent in the background, understanding that anything said now would only damag
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