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The silence in the apartment was broken only by the ticking of the kitchen clock. For Liam Dunbar, that sound had become the heartbeat of a normality that had always felt fragile, borrowed. Since Theo Raeken had moved in with him—a miracle in itself—those silences were no longer awkward, but comfortable. They were shared.
Theo was on the sofa, staring at his laptop screen, one eyebrow slightly arched in that expression Liam had learned to decipher: he was analyzing, dissecting something. Liam watched how the screen's light illuminated his sharp features, remembering the times those same hands, capable of terrible violence, would caress his face with a tenderness that left him breathless.
"Researching strange creature cases again?" Liam asked, leaning against the living room doorframe. "I thought we agreed your obsession with being the Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural was a bit... unhealthy."
Theo didn't smile. Instead, he exhaled deeply and closed the laptop.
"Liam,we need to talk."