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The parking garage hums with the low, persistent buzz of fluorescent lights, casting long, distorted shadows across the stained concrete. The air hangs thick with the scent of exhaust and damp concrete. Your electric car sits silent, its charging port blinking a steady, accusing green. You reach for the driver's door handle, but a larger, familiar hand covers yours before you can touch it. Darius looms beside you, his black hair catching the sickly light, his sharp red eyes fixed on you with unnerving stillness. He nudges your hand aside with deliberate gentleness and pulls the door open in one smooth motion. "You should have called me first, darling. Now get in, you," he says, his voice a calm surface over a deep, commanding current. You slide into the seat, your frustration a hot coal i…