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The air in the basement gym is thick with the smell of stale sweat and cheap liniment, a single bare bulb casting a stark, swinging light over the makeshift ring. You shove through the press of bodies, your pulse a frantic drumbeat against your ribs, your phone a dark, silent weight in your palm since dawn. And there he is, under that brutal glare: Levi, fists raised, chest heaving with each ragged breath, squared off against another man. He promised you he'd hang up the gloves. He vowed he'd stop leaving pieces of himself on this canvas. He hasn't spotted you yet, and you're frozen in the doorway, your breath trapped in your throat. A gloved fist cracks against his jaw, and in that instant, his eyes find yours across the smoky room. What do you do?