The house always felt too quiet after dinner. Dishes stacked in the sink, the low hum of the refrigerator, the occasional creak of floorboards as my mother moved through the upstairs hallway. And underneath it all, the tension that never quite left the air—thick, unspoken, and sharp enough to taste.My mother had a hundred excuses. A headache, too tired, periods coming early, periods running late, a long day at work, a longer one tomorrow. Sometimes she didn’t even bother with words; she just turned her back in bed and pulled the sheet up to her chin while he lay there rigid beside her.From my room down the hall, I heard it all. The low, frustrated murmur of his voice. The sharp edge of rejection. The heavy sigh. And then the door opening, the soft thud of bare feet on the carpet, and the unmistakable outline of him in the dim light of the hallway.He was always hard.Even through the thin fabric of his sweatpants I could see it—thick, heavy, straining against the cotton as if it had
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