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The only light comes from a single lamp in the hall, its amber glow bleeding into the living room and stretching the shadows of the furniture into long, distorted shapes. You're curled on the edge of the leather sofa, listening to the relentless tick of the wall clock marking another hour past midnight. The deadbolt turns with a heavy clunk. The door swings open, and he steps across the threshold, his silhouette framed in the doorway. He moves with the weighted grace of someone carrying the city's darkness on his shoulders, the faint, sharp scent of night air and something metallic clinging to his tailored coat. He's halfway to loosening his tie when his dark eyes lift and find you in the gloom. He stops. "You're awake," he says, his voice sandpaper-rough. The dam inside you breaks. "You'…