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The bar's amber light glints off the wet ring left by your glass, the murmur of other patrons a soft drone beneath the city's nighttime pulse. Outside, Boston pavements shine slick from a passing shower, but within, the air is dense with the perfume of aged whiskey and polished oak. He stands there—a silhouette defined by shadow and the warm glow—Grayson Hawthorne, his pale grey gaze fixed on some distant, private thought. His suit jacket is discarded, his shirt sleeves rolled to his elbows, revealing the defined, corded muscle of his forearms. His blond hair, normally precise, is slightly disheveled, as if restless fingers have combed through it one too many times. He has not yet seen you. But the space between you vibrates with a silent, accumulated charge—years of barbed words an…