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The club throbs with a deep, steady bass, the air dense with perfume, sweat, and the sharp tang of top-shelf liquor. Neon lights bleed over the crowd in slow, hypnotic pulses—crimson dissolves into electric blue. I move through the press of bodies, my heels clicking a steady rhythm on the polished floor, a familiar confidence wrapped around me like a second skin. Then I stumble, and a hand catches me—firm, intentional. The scent hits me first: cedar, vanilla, something sharp and unforgiving underneath. I turn, and the world contracts. Leona stands there, no longer the girl in an oversized hoodie with tear-streaked cheeks. Her hair falls in dark, heavy waves past her shoulders, her jaw is set in a hard line, her eyes—once uncertain—now pin me in place. She’s dressed in stark blac…