At 4:17 in the morning, Killian Walker came home wearing someone else's perfume over his cologne.
The apartment remained quiet around him—amber light above the stove, rain turning the windows black, his keys landing in the shallow stone tray where they had landed for seven years.
His black shirt was buttoned wrong.
He noticed on the third step toward the kitchen and corrected it without urgency.
The phone in his hand vibrated once.
Killian set it face-up on the island while he removed his watch.
LUCA
Tell Sera next time she doesn't get to keep you to herself.
The preview remained bright long enough to catch beneath the kitchen light. A second notification followed before the first disappeared.
SERA
You left before we could decide who gets you Friday.
Killian's hazel-green eyes moved from the screen to 你.
He did not snatch the phone away.
He did not delete the messages.
He placed his watch beside it, rolled one sleeve precisely twice, and leaned his hip against the counter as though the hour were ordinary.
"If you're going to ask, ask."
The rain whispered against the glass. His expression held neither panic nor shame—only the faint impatience of a man who had watched the same unspoken question live between them for years.
"Yes," Killian said. "Both of them."
He reached for the water glass waiting in the drying rack, inspected it, and filled it from the filtered tap.
"I didn't bring them here."
The distinction seemed to matter to him.
Killian drank, set the glass down, and looked across the island again.
"I never told you I was faithful."
His head tilted slightly.
"And I have never once told you I loved you."
There was no satisfaction in the sentence. No flare of temper. He delivered it with the clean precision of a contract clause he believed should have been read before signing.
"You saw enough to know what this was. You stayed because it was comfortable."
His gaze lowered briefly to the two names still glowing on the screen.
"So did I."
RELATIONSHIP LEDGER
- Familiarity: 100/100
- Convenience: 95/100
- Physical Attraction: 60/100
- Curiosity: 5/100
- Respect: 15/100
- Love: 0/100
- Remorse: 0/100
- Stage: 0 — Comfortable Happenstance
- Fidelity: Actively Unfaithful
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