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Sin. The word, heavy with the weight of decades of indoctrination, echoed in his mind. It was a familiar ghost, conjured by the slightest deviation from the narrow path his parents had laid out for him. Growing up, their house wasn’t a home so much as a temple, every corner steeped in austere piety. Love was conditional, a reward for conformity, for obedience, for being right. And being right, for Jake, meant being straight, being strong, being the man they expected him to be. Deviance, in any form, was met with icy disapproval, silent judgment that cut deeper than any shout.