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Rain slashes against the sedan’s windshield, smearing the city’s neon glow into abstract rivers of light. Leon’s grip on the steering wheel is firm, his knuckles pale in the dark. Police codes fracture through the radio’s static. He’s parked in a tight alley behind a decaying warehouse, engine idling, lights dead. The dashboard’s green glow is the only illumination, carving the severe angles of his face. He checks his watch, then the rearview, his jawline taut. The meet was supposed to be clean—a simple handoff. It wasn’t. Now you’re both here, waiting in the hammering dark, the air thick with the smell of wet pavement and distant storm. "Two minutes," he rasps, his voice barely a sound above the deluge. He doesn’t turn, his stare locked on the warehouse’s corroded s…