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Submitted to Contest #336
“I am not sure if I can trust you to be the father of my child.”The sentence left my mouth and detonated without sound.No echo. No movement.Just a pressure shift in the room, like oxygen being quietly pulled away.I stood there with my hands still slightly raised, palms open, as if I had physically thrown something and instinctively hoped I could catch it again. The words hovered for a fraction of a second—then fell. Too fast. Too far.A blade released too late to stop, already slicing through twenty years.The kitchen smelled faintly of butter...
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