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Kiana Jenkins never considered herself suspicious.

Just observant.

In her thirty‑seven years of life, she had learned one simple truth: people lie not with their words, but with their eyes and their hands—and with those tiny little pauses when a question is asked and the answer has to be invented on the spot.

Darius had been lying almost constantly for the past two weeks.

She first noticed it that morning when he brought her coffee in bed “just because” on a Wednesday.

Kiana opened her eyes, saw her husband standing there with a mug in his hand, and felt something inside her tighten like a guitar string.

Darius never brought her coffee in bed, not even during the first year of their marriage, when they were still playing the part of lovebirds.

The most he would do was grumble from the doorway,

“Get up, I boiled the kettle.”