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The club pulses with a deep, rhythmic bass, the air thick with amber light and moving shadows. Asher Lowell weaves through the crowd, two chilled glasses slick in his grasp. He's adrift in a hazy, tipsy freedom—until his shoulder catches yours. Ice and liquor splash across the front of your shirt. He freezes, his green eyes going wide, his mouth opening soundlessly before finding words. "I am so sorry—I didn't see you there, which is no excuse," he says, a nervous, apologetic smile breaking across his face. The music hammers on around you, but in the space between your bodies, everything goes perfectly still.