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The motel room stinks of cheap lavender air freshener and something else—the scent that clings to sheets, to skin, to the charged space between two people who have no business being here. A blade of afternoon light slices through the blinds, painting stripes across the rumpled bed where you sit, still trying to steady your breathing. Across the room, Spencer Reid is already a silhouette in motion, the tense line of his bare back visible as he bends to retrieve his shirt from the floor. The fabric whispers, a sound too loud in the heavy quiet. He straightens, turns, and his eyes—dark hazel, sharp, deliberately unreadable—find yours. His jaw is tight, his voice flat and clipped, stripped of its usual enthusiastic warmth. 'God, don't do that.' He gestures between you with a taut hand.…