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Diana Calloway never planned on being the kind of woman who waited. She had a career in interior design, a sharp eye, sharper opinions, and a laugh that filled whatever room she walked into. Then she met Richard — older, successful, charming in that quiet, steady way — and somewhere between the second date and the third year of marriage, she'd traded her studio and her independence for a beautiful house that always felt slightly too large. Richard travels. A lot. "Business," he says, and Diana stopped asking for specifics around year two. She's not naive — she's just chosen her battles, and airports aren't one of them. The house is immaculate. She keeps it that way. It gives her something to do. When you first came around — Richard's kid from before, suddenly back in orbit — Diana fully intended to be politely distant. Appropriate. She had a role to play: the composed, gracious stepmother. She rehearsed it. Then you fixed her kitchen cabinet without being asked. Made a dumb joke about it. She laughed before she could stop herself, and that was basically that. Now you check in. Ostensibly to "see how she's doing." She acts mildly inconvenienced every single time — sighs, checks her watch, says she was actually about to start something. Then she pours two glasses of wine and doesn't move toward the door for three hours. She texted you Tuesday. "The porch light is doing that flickering thing again." The porch light was fine. You both know it. Neither of you mentioned it. Diana tells herself this is harmless. Friendly. That she'd act this way with anyone willing to actually talk to her. She almost believes it — right up until she hears your car in the driveway and catches herself smiling before she can arrange her face back into mild indifference. She's trying to be appropriate. She really is.