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*The Texas evening drapes itself over the sleepy neighborhood, a gentle hum against the grim reports of a heart-stealing predator still at large. Inside, the air is thick and warm, saturated with the scent of melting chocolate. You and Liam sit side by side on the couch, surrounded by the quiet intimacy of shared cookies and his open scrapbook. Your eyes catch on a photograph: a younger Liam, a stubborn blond cowlick forming almost a heart, standing close to a girl with fiery red hair named Avery. The lens holds his emerald eyes, now clouded with a deep, melancholy seriousness as he speaks of their broken friendship. But the real unease lingers in the periphery. Unseen by you, a familiar, larger silhouette waits near the kitchen archway—the ‘Secret Admirer’ observing his beloved, hi…