My Husband Didn’t Touch Me For 7 Years — Until The Roof Caved In
Part 3
Was she really going to let a single night of adrenaline tear down the fortress she had spent seven years building?
Yes, she was, but the journey to that realization had begun long before he knocked on her door.
Heather knew the exact number of floorboards between her bedroom and her husband’s study.
Craig had made his indifference clear on their wedding night, leaving the marital bed before the sheets had even warmed.
She had matched his retreat with a coldness she hadn’t known she possessed.
When she awoke at six, the bitter chill of early autumn had already seeped through the mortar.
She threw back the heavy blankets, completely indifferent to the freezing floorboards against her bare feet.
Downstairs, the breakfast room was an exercise in vast, unnecessary proportions.
She sat at one end of the mahogany table.
Craig sat at the other.
The silence between them wasn’t empty.
A crisp rustle echoed through the room as he turned the page of his newspaper.
Rather than looking up, Heather focused intently on her dry toast, finding a grim solace in its mundane texture.
The sharp metallic tang of kippers from the silver chafing dish warred with the familiar, forbidden scent of his sandalwood shaving soap.
It was a scent she had no business recognizing so intimately after seven years of distance.
Without lifting his eyes from the print, Craig finally broke the quiet.
“The glass is falling.”
“I have already instructed Dan to secure the shutters in the conservatory,” Heather replied.
Craig finally lowered the newspaper.
He wasn’t classically handsome.
His nose had been broken in a hunting accident years ago, leaving a slight bump at the bridge, and he perpetually looked as though he hadn’t slept in a week.
“The roof over the west wing is failing,”..
“I’ll have the men look at it, but if it storms as heavily as the barometer suggests, we may lose the plaster in the upper gallery.
I shall have the maids move the rugs,” Heather said.
Craig raised the newspaper again.
Heather carefully placed her napkin on the table, feeling a familiar dull ache behind her ribs.
It wasn’t heartbreak.
Heather was 26, and she expected nothing.
Their marriage had been a transaction, her father’s industrial wealth in exchange for Craig’s ancestral title.
Instead, Craig had stood by the window, staring out into the dark.
“I will not force myself upon you, Heather,” he had said, his voice stripped of emotion.
“Nor will I pretend this is a love match.
Heather had sat on the edge of the bed for 3 hours, waiting for him to come back and say he was joking.
Craig didn’t flinch.
She didn’t wait for a reply.
Heather stood in the library, a massive room lined with thousands of leatherbound volumes that smelled of vanilla, decay, and dry ink.
The estate was profitable, no thanks to Craig’s ancestors, who had preferred gambling over agriculture.
Heather had spent the last seven years turning herself into a human ledger, calculating yields, arguing with tenants, finding a grim satisfaction in the perfect alignment of numbers.
Craig walked in.
He didn’t see her immediately.
Heather slowly lowered her arm.
Craig’s head snapped up, his eyes locked onto hers across the dim room.
It was a stupid, awkward deer in the headlights moment that made Heather grit her teeth.
They were husband and wife for God’s sake, not intruders.
“I apologize,” Craig said stiffly, rolling the plans back up.
“I thought you were in the east wing.
It is your library,” Heather pointed out, her tone drier than the pages in her hands.
“I needed the structural layouts for the roof,”..
Heather stepped out from the shadows of the shelves.
She didn’t know why.
“Let me see,”..
Craig blinked, clearly taken a back.
Heather leaned over to look.
7 years married, and she didn’t know the origin of a scar on his hand.
“The problem is here,” Craig said, his voice a fraction lower than usual.
“The joists above the upper gallery are rotting.
If the wind gets beneath the slates, the water will flood directly into the gallery, Heather finished, her eyes tracking the lines on the paper, and then down into the yellow drawing room.
Heather realized she was staring at the side of his jaw.
Heather jumped.
Before she could step back, Craig’s hand shot out across the desk.
Heather jerked her hand back as if she’d been burned.
He withdrew his hand instantly, the muscles in his jaw clenching.
“I apologize,” he murmured, his voice returning to its usual frigid state.
“I did not mean to startle you.
You didn’t,” she lied, her voice cracking slightly.
“I have work to do,” Heather said, turning sharply on her heel.
“Heather,” she stopped, her hand on the brass doornob.
She didn’t turn around.
Craig was silent for a long moment.
It isn’t safe.
Heather pushed the door open.
I can take care of myself, Craig.
I’ve had 7 years of practice.
The stone walls groaned, a deep structural vibration that traveled up through the soles of Heather’s slippers.
She couldn’t sleep.
Heather stood up, clutching the shawl tighter around her shoulders.
It wasn’t the wind.
Heather didn’t think.
She didn’t care about Craig’s warning.
The gallery housed her mother’s rosewood piano and a dozen crates of imported silk she had purchased for the estate’s redecoration.
“No!
Heather gasped.
“Move!
Damn you!” she screamed over the roar of the wind, digging her heels into the soden rug.
What in God’s name are you doing?
Heather wiped the freezing water from her eyes and turned.
Craig was standing in the doorway.
The silk, Heather yelled back, pointing at the crates.
He abandoned the lantern on a nearby table and dashed into the pouring rain.
Heather fought him, twisting her arm, her bare feet slid on the wet plaster.
Forget the damn silk, Heather.
He wasn’t looking at a duchess.
He wasn’t looking at an estate manager.
“Let me go,” she whispered.
She didn’t know if..
Craig didn’t hesitate.
“Craig, put me down!” she shrieked, kicking wildly as he carried her away from the center of the room.
“Quiet!” he barked.
Craig twisted in midair, taking the brunt of the fall.
Heather lay on top of him, gasping for air.
Craig’s eyes were closed, his face pale, his breath coming in ragged gasps.
“Craig,” she choked out.
He didn’t let her go.
“You foolish, stubborn woman!” he breathed, his voice raw.
It wasn’t an accident this time.
But as his thumb stroked her jaw in the freezing, ruined darkness of the hallway, Heather realized with a wave of utter panic that she felt everything.
Heather didn’t breathe.
She stared down into Craig’s pale blue eyes, watching the erratic flutter of his pulse at the base of his throat, where the wet linen clung to his skin.
He was looking at her mouth, panic, cold and sharp as a butcher’s knife finally pierced through the shock.
Heather scrambled backward, her wet skirts twisting violently around her legs.
It wasn’t entirely from the freezing water dripping from her hair.
Craig lay there for a second longer, staring at the empty space she had just occupied.
He didn’t look at her.
You are bleeding, Heather said.
“Your head!
Craig touched his temple.
Craig, Heather said, forcing herself to stand.
Half the house was currently exposed to a torrential downpour, but practicalities were a life raft, and Heather clung to them.
Craig looked at her.
Heather gasped, taking a reflexive step back.
Craig ignored her reaction.
Another thing she hadn’t known about her husband.
Go to your room, Heather..
He didn’t wait for her to argue.
Heather stood alone in the dark.
The storm had died, leaving behind a silence so profound it made Heather’s ears ring.
Her maid, a quiet girl named Jenny, was vigorously brushing Heather’s damp hair.
Heather’s skin was pale, taut over her cheekbones, and dark purple shadows bruised the skin beneath her eyes.
She hadn’t slept.
Every time she closed her eyes, she felt the violent, breathless impact of Craig pulling her down, the heat of his skin, the smell of rain and panic.
“Shall I lay out the dark blue marino, your grace?
Jenny asked softly.
“The gray?
Heather corrected, her voice mechanical. the heavy wool.
Heather bypassed the breakfast room.
Craig was standing in the center of the devastation.
“Anchor the ropes to the stone ballastrades, not the wood,” he shouted over the noise of sliding slate.
“The joists are rotten through.
They won’t hold the tension.
Heather stood in the doorway, her hands folded neatly over her stomach, hiding the way her fingers dug into her own flesh.
Thousands of pounds destroyed in an instant.
Craig turned sharply, sensing her presence.
The men on the roof kept working, completely oblivious to the sudden suffocating drop in atmospheric pressure within the room.
Heather stared back.
It wasn’t the dead, empty quiet of the past 7 years.
He began to walk toward her, navigating the debris with heavy, deliberate steps.
Heather fought the overwhelming urge to take a step backward.
She held her ground, lifting her chin slightly as he stopped 3 ft away.
The architect will be here by noon, Craig said.
It sounded strained.
The silk is ruined, Heather said, looking past his shoulder at the crushed crates.
Yes, it will need to be written off in the ledgers.
Heather, Craig said softly.
Her eyes snapped back to his face.
He was looking at her with an expression she couldn’t parse.
It wasn’t anger.
It wasn’t indifference.
It looked horribly like regret.
“Are you injured?”..
No, you are certain you fell hard.
I’m perfectly fine.
Without thinking, Craig reached out.
He caught her right hand lifting it between them.
Heather stopped breathing.
His fingers were warm, rough through his leather writing gloves.
A massive, ugly purple bruise ringed her right wrist, precisely in the shape of his grip where he had yanked her away from the falling beam.
Craig stared at the bruise.
His jaw clamped shut, a muscle leaping violently beneath his skin.
“Have Jenny fetch you some arnica,”..
“It doesn’t hurt,” Heather lied, snatching her hand back and hiding it in the folds of her gray skirt.
“I handled you roughly.
You saved my life.
I bruised my wife,” he countered bitterly, his eyes darkening.
He looked away, staring fiercely at a shattered porcelain vase on the floor.
“I told you to stay out of the gallery.
You never listen.
I have managed this estate for 7 years, Craig.
I give them.
Even when the roof is caving in,” he snapped, his temper flaring, sudden and hot.
“Especially then,” she fired back. surprising herself with the volume of her own voice.
Several of the men on the roof paused, looking down, Craig noticed.
“I will be in the estate office dealing with the architect,”..
“Stay out of this wing today.
He stepped around her and walked out into the corridor.
Heather watched his broad shoulders disappear into the gloom, her chest heaving, her right wrist throbbing with a phantom heat that had nothing to do with the bruise.
By 10:00 that night, Ashwood had settled into a restless, damp quiet.
The canvas tarps held against the wind, but the house still felt violated, exposed.
Heather sat in the wing back chair by the fireplace in her bed chamber.
A small fire crackled in the hearth, doing little to chase away the deep, bone- chilling dampness that had permeated the stone walls.
In her lap sat the estate ledger.
The numbers were meaningless black scratches.
Her mind kept looping back to the gallery, to the sheer terrifying strength in Craig’s arms, to the harsh self-loathing in his voice when he looked at the bruise on her wrist.
I bruised my wife.
This man, who had ignored her existence for 25,555 days, was agonizing over a bruise that had saved her from being crushed to death.
Nothing made sense anymore.
The carefully constructed, frozen architecture of their marriage had sustained a massive structural blow, and Heather didn’t know how to fix it.
Worse, she didn’t know if she wanted to.
“Knock!
Knock!
Heather froze.
The sound was sharp, distinct, and came from her bedroom door.
The servants knew better than to disturb her past 9 unless the house was literally on fire, which given yesterday wasn’t entirely outside the realm of possibility.
“Who is it?” she called out, her voice unnaturally loud in the quiet room.
“Silence!
Then a low, grally voice vibrated through the heavy oak.
“It is Craig.
Heather’s heart slammed against her ribs.
Craig had never been to her room.
The geography of their separation was absolute.
She had hers.
And he had just crossed every single one.
Her hands were shaking.
Craig stood in the dimly lit corridor.
He wore only dark trousers and a slightly wrinkled white shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his forearms.
In his right hand, he held two heavy crystal glasses.
He didn’t look at her face.
“The house is freezing,”..
“I found a bottle of my grandfather’s cognac in the cellar.
I assumed you might require something to cut the chill.
It was an excuse, a flimsy, transparent, terrifyingly human excuse.
Heather stood in the doorway blocking his path.
She should say thank you, take a glass, and shut the door in his face.
That was how they survived.
She looked at his knuckles, still raw and scraped from dragging her across the floor.
Slowly, Heather stepped back, opening the door wider.
She didn’t say a word.
Craig hesitated for a fraction of a second, his jaw tightening before he stepped across the threshold.
He looked entirely too large for her room.
He smelled of smoke, old cognac, and tension.
He walked to the small table near the fire and set the bottle down.
His hands were completely steady, but the muscles in his forearms were corded tight.
Heather walked over and took it.
Their fingers didn’t brush this time.
They were both hyper aware of the space between them, ensuring a full inch of air remained.
“Thank you,”..
Craig didn’t reply.
The fire light cast long, flickering shadows across his face, highlighting the harsh bump on his broken nose, and the exhaustion etched deep around his eyes.
Heather took a sip.
The cognac was incredibly smooth, burning a hot welcome trail down her throat and settling into a warm pool in her stomach.
The only sounds were the popping of the sap in the firewood and the heavy rhythmic ticking of the small mantel clock.
“I’m having the gallery permanently closed off,” Craig said suddenly, breaking the quiet.
He didn’t look away from the fire.
“Once the roof is patched, the doors will be locked.
We will not use that space again.
Heather asked, frowning.
Because every time I look at it, I will see that beam coming down on your head..
Heather stopped breathing.
“I would have moved in time,”..
Craig finally turned his head to look at her.
A harsh, bitter laugh escaped his lips, lacking any trace of humor.
You would have died, Heather, for a crate of silk.
He took a step toward her.
You planted your feet in a collapsing room and tried to drag a 100 lb of dead weight because you are too damned stubborn to let anything go.
I’m not stubborn.
I am responsible, she flared, her grip tightening on the crystal glass.
Someone has to maintain what is left of this family’s legacy since you clearly have no interest in doing so.
Craig flinched as if she had slapped him.
He looked down at his glass, swirling the remaining amber liquid.
“You think I don’t care?”..
“You think I left you in this wing alone out of spite?
I think you left me alone because you did not want a wife,” Heather said, her voice shaking despite her desperate attempt to keep it level.
“You wanted a bank draft.
You provided the title.
Is that what you believe?
Craig looked back up at her, his eyes burning with a dark, intense heat that made her heart stutter.
That I didn’t want you.
You walked out on our wedding night, Craig.
A tear broke free, hot and humiliating, tracking down her cheek.
You did not touch me.
Do not stand in my bedroom and pretend otherwise.
Craig stared at her.
The air between them was so thick, so heavily charged with years of unspoken grief and rage that Heather felt she might suffocate.
Slowly, Craig set his glass down on the table.
“I walked out on our wedding night,” Craig said, his voice terrifyingly quiet. because you were 19 years old, trembling like a trapped bird in that lace gown.
Heather froze.
I wasn’t terrified.
I was nervous.
He corrected softly.
He was deeply in her space now, close enough that she could feel the heat radiating from his skin.
I looked at you sitting on the edge of that bed, and I knew that if I touched you, it would be a violation.
It would be a duty forced upon you by a contract you never signed.
He raised his hand.
For a second, Heather thought he was going to touch her cheek.
I told myself I would give you time, he whispered, his eyes dropping to her mouth.
Then a month turned into six.
You had built such a perfect fortress of ice around yourself, Heather.
You became so brilliantly, flawlessly cold, I thought.
I thought you hated me, and I could not bear to force myself on a woman who despised the very sight of me.
Heather stared at him, her mind reeling, 7 years of resentment, of bitter assumptions suddenly cracked and splintered, exposing a foundation built entirely on mutual devastating misunderstandings.
“I didn’t hate you,” she breathed, her voice cracking.
I was waiting for you.
Craig closed his eyes, a ragged breath shuttering through his chest.
When he opened them, the rigid control he had maintained for almost a decade was entirely gone.
He didn’t step back.
He stepped in.
It was a single definitive movement that erased the 142 floorboards, the seven years, and the inch of remaining air between them.
Craig didn’t pull her into a desperate theatrical embrace.
His hands came up, hovering for a fraction of a second before settling on her shoulders.
They were trembling.
Heather’s breath hitched, a sharp, audible gasp that seemed to fill the quiet room.
She looked up at him.
He was waiting for her to flinch.
She didn’t flinch.
It hit the thick wool rug with a dull thud.
Craig let out a sound that was half grown, half sigh.
His hands slid from her shoulders to her neck, his thumbs tracing the line of her jaw, rough calluses scraping gently against her skin.
The kiss was not gentle.
It was awkward and punishing.
Heather grabbed the front of his wrinkled shirt, her knuckles turning white, twisting the linen in her fists, as if she needed an anchor to keep from spinning off the earth.
He pulled her flush against his chest.
She didn’t notice the cold.
He broke the kiss, dragging his mouth across her cheek, pressing his face into her hair.
“Heather,” he muttered, her name catching in his throat.
Don’t stop,” she whispered.
Craig pulled back just enough to look at her.
He reached down, his fingers finding the delicate ribbon tying her heavy night gown at the collar.
The knot came undone with a soft, whispery friction.
Their progress was terribly clumsy.
Heather tripped on the hem of her night gown.
Craig caught her, his hip bumping hard against the solid oak bed post.
There was only the frantic, messy reality of two people who had forgotten how to touch, desperate to learn all at once.
Craig braced his weight on his forearms, hovering over her.
He looked down at her, pinning her with a gaze so vulnerable it made her chest ache.
The cool air of the room hit her bare skin, raising goosebumps along her arms.
Craig let out a shaky breath, his eyes tracing the line of her collarbone.
“You are freezing,”..
“I’m perfectly fine,” she [clears throat] replied, reaching up to thread her fingers through his dark, messy hair.
He lowered his head, pressing his open mouth against the hollow of her throat.
Heather arched her back, a soft, involuntary sound escaping her lips.
It was marred by hesitation, by sudden freezes when a hand moved too quickly, by the awkward negotiation of limbs and heavy blankets.
When Craig pulled his shirt off, tossing it blindly onto the floor, Heather finally felt the raised, uneven texture of the burn scar on his ribs beneath her fingertips.
She traced it, feeling the way his muscles jumped in response.
He whispered into the dark, answering the question she hadn’t asked.
“Before I inherited, before you.
It doesn’t matter,”..
When he finally settled his weight fully over her, the intrusion was a sharp grounding shock.
Heather buried her face in his neck, breathing in the scent of smoke and sweat, grounding herself in the solid reality of him.
It wasn’t perfect.
But Craig stopped, holding perfectly still, murmuring quiet, breathless reassurances against her temple, until the tension finally broke, bleeding out into a heavy, consuming rhythm.
For the first time since she had arrived at Ashwood, the crushing silence of the house was completely drowned out.
Morning is a cruel and honest investigator.
Heather woke to the smell of dust and the heavy, unfamiliar weight of an arm draped across her waist.
Her eyes tracked the familiar water stains on the plaster ceiling, the hunting dog, the deformed pear, but the air in the room was different.
It didn’t smell solely of stale lavender.
It smelled of him.
Craig was fast asleep, his face buried in the pillow next to hers.
The stubble on his jaw had darkened into a shadow, and the white bandage on his temple was slightly a skew.
Panic, sharp, and familiar, clamped down on Heather’s windpipe.
Last night had been an anomaly, fueled by adrenaline, near-death, and grandfather’s cognac.
She was the Duchess of Ashwood, the human ledger.
She had an estate to run.
Carefully, agonizingly slowly, she lifted his heavy, scarred hand from her waist.
The cold air hit her skin like a physical blow.
She needed to get to her wash basin.
She needed her armor.
Heather froze halfway to the wash stand.
Craig was awake.
He hadn’t moved, but his eyes were open, tracking her every movement.
The vulnerability of the night before was gone, replaced by a guarded, shuttered look that made her stomach drop.
“I am not running,” Heather said.
“It is past 7.
I have the accounts to finalize before the architect returns.
Craig stared at her.
The silence stretched thick and suffocating exactly like the silence across their breakfast table.
He regrets it, Heather thought, the realization hitting her like a physical blow to the sternum.
He regrets it, and he is trying to figure out how to put the ice back.
I shall have Jenny prepare a bath for you.
We need not make an issue of this, Craig.
Craig slowly sat up.
He didn’t look angry.
“Do not do this, Heather,”..
“Do what?”..
“Mal, build the wall back up.
Not today.
He swung his legs over the side of the bed, planting his bare feet on the floorboards.
I spent seven years believing you despised me because I was too proud and too afraid to ask you the truth.
I will not spend another 7 years pretending last night didn’t happen because you were too terrified of the daylight.
I am not terrified,” she snapped, her back rigidly straight.
Craig stood up.
He didn’t bother looking for his discarded trousers.
Heather’s eyes involuntarily dropped to his chest, then snapped back up to his face, her cheeks burning furiously.
He didn’t touch her.
He just stood there, letting her see him, flawed, unckempt, entirely stripped of his title and his pretense.
You’re terrified,” Craig said gently.
“Because for seven years, numbers and ledgers have never hurt you.
I can hurt you.
Heather swallowed hard, her throat clicking audibly in the quiet room.
She looked at the fresh scrape on his knuckles, the bruised skin around his eyes.
“Yes,” she whispered, the admission tasting like ash on her tongue.
“You can.
Craig reached out slowly this time, giving her ample time to step back.
She didn’t.
He took her right hand, his thumb resting gently against the ugly yellowing purple bruise circling her wrist.
“I bruised my wife,” he repeated.
“The words lacking the bitter self-loathing of yesterday,” replaced by a quiet, steady vow.
“I will spend the rest of my life ensuring I never leave another mark on you that you do not ask for.
He lifted her wrist, pressing a dry, warm kiss against the center of the bruise.
The gesture completely dismantled her.
Heather let out a shaky, shuddering breath and stepped forward, burying her face against his bare shoulder.
“Craig’s arms wrapped around her instantly, pulling her tight against him, burying his face in her messy, unpinned hair.
“The architect will have to wait,” he murmured against her ear, his breath warm.
The tenant farmers are expecting me,” she argued weakly, her voice muffled against his skin.
“Let them talk to the steward,” Craig replied, his hand sliding down her back to rest on her waist.
“Today you are dealing with me.” 3 months later, the smell of damp plaster and ozone was entirely gone, replaced by the sharp, clean scent of fresh pine and boiled linseed oil.
The winter had set in hard over the moors, locking the estate in a quiet white freeze.
But inside Ashwood, the atmosphere had irrevocably shifted.
Heather sat in the estate office on the ground floor.
She wore a dark green wool dress, practical but soft.
A ledger lay open in front of her, but for once she wasn’t looking at the numbers.
She was staring out the window, watching the frost creep across the leaded glass.
Craig walked in.
His face was red from the biting wind, and his dark hair was windblown.
The dark, bruised exhaustion that used to live permanently under his eyes had faded, replaced by a sharp, quiet energy.
The upper gallery is sealed, he announced, pulling off his gloves and tossing them onto a side table.
The final slates were laid this morning before the freeze hit.
“You oversaw them yourself?
Heather asked, turning her chair toward him.
I trust the foreman, but I prefer to look at the joists myself,”..
He rubbed them together, the heat radiating off his wool coat.
“We won’t have another collapse.
M good.
Heather looked back at her ledger.
“Because the cost of replacing the roof has entirely consumed the surplus from the autumn harvest.
If we have to fix it again, I shall have to sell the silver.
Craig turned his back to the fire, leaning against the stone mantelpiece.
He looked at her, a slow, incredibly rare half smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
You would sell my grandmother silver before you sell a single acre of this land, wouldn’t you?
The land produces wheat, Craig..
Craig let out a low chuckle, a sound that she had grown to fiercely covet over the past 12 weeks.
The transition from hostile roommates to whatever they were now had not been seamless.
Heather was too used to complete control over the estate.
Craig was too used to absolute solitude.
They had clashed over crop rotations, over servant wages, over the simple, messy reality of sharing space.
When they argued, they shouted.
And when the shouting stopped, they didn’t retreat to separate wings.
Craig walked over to the desk.
He didn’t stop on the opposite side as he used to.
He walked around it, coming to stand behind her chair.
Heather leaned back slightly, resting her head against his stomach, closing her eyes as the scent of cold air, horse, and familiar sandalwood washed over her.
The architect sent the final bill for the interior plaster, Craig said, his voice rumbling through his chest against her head.
I left it on the whole table.
No.
Craig reached down, his fingers gently tracing the line of her collar.
“You will leave it until Monday.
We are riding out to the north boundary.
Heather opened her eyes, looking up at him upside down.
It is freezing, Craig.
The ground is solid ice.
You need to leave this office.
You’re turning into a ledger.
Someone has to keep track of the ruin, she teased, though the bite was entirely gone from the words.
We are not ruined, Heather..
We just had to tear the house down to build it right.
I am going to change out of these boots.
I won’t, she promised.
He didn’t look like a duke from a story book.
His knuckles were still permanently rough, and he was stubborn to a fault.
But as he pulled the door shut behind him, leaving a draft of warmth in his wake, Heather looked back down at her open ledger.
She reached out, gently closed the heavy leather cover, and pushed it away.
For the first time in 7 years, she didn’t need to count the floorboards between them.
THE END
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