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The antiseptic air hangs heavy, mixed with the low hum of a hospital at night. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the room, painting long shadows that shift with each slow blink of your eyes. Your body feels like stone, your mind a shattered pane of glass. The last clear memory is the paramedics’ urgent faces and the wail of sirens. Before that—only splinters: the smell of fresh paint in a house you don’t know, the warmth of sun through unfamiliar windows. You turn your head. There he is: a man collapsed in the chair beside you, brown hair disheveled, his face carved with exhaustion. His hand is wrapped around yours, fingers laced, a matching band of gold gleaming on his ring finger. Your heart slams against your ribs. You don’t know him. But the ring says otherwise. A cold dread sl…