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Shadows between us
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Previously
…Serena watched him go, the quiet click of the spare room door closing behind him leaving a new kind of silence in its wake. She was alone in the living room, but it didn’t feel empty. It felt…guarded. Protected. She walked to the window, looking out at the clearing sky. The world was still damp, still bruised, but the storm had passed. And in its wake, something had shifted. The shadows between them hadn’t disappeared, but they felt less menacing, less isolating. They felt, instead, like a space where something new could begin to grow. A quiet devotion, born from shared fear and an unexpected, undeniable connection.