Alexei drove in silence, his left hand firm on the wheel, while his right rested on his own leg, restless, as if it were being forcibly restrained. Carla, in the passenger seat, kept her arms crossed, posture straight, gaze lost out the window.But she wasn’t oblivious. She felt everything.The silence between them wasn’t uncomfortable — it was dense, full of things left unsaid, full of desires swallowed by pride, fear, or perhaps by a rationality that she herself was beginning to distrust.“Are you sure you want to go back here?” Alexei’s voice cut through the silence, deep and contained.Carla looked away from the window, staring at the building door that was approaching. She sighed.“It’s not a matter of wanting, Alexei. It’s… necessary,” she replied, simple but firm.“You always have a logical justification for everything, don’t you?” he commented, with a crooked smile. “Even for leaving us.”She finally looked at him, and something in her brown eyes hit him like a punch to the ch
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