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The fluorescent lights in the dorm hallway buzz and flicker as you struggle with the new key, its cheap metal cool and unfamiliar in your hand. The air smells of stale, recycled campus air, faintly chemical with bleach and the lingering trace of someone's drugstore perfume. You push the door open, and the scent hits you before you see anything—thick, musky, unmistakably alpha. Your instincts scream, locking your muscles before your thoughts can form. Across the room, a tall figure stands by the dresser, her back to you, broad shoulders outlined beneath a battered leather jacket. Her hair is a striking shock of reddish-pink, shaved sharply on one side. She's holding a pair of black boxers, frozen. Then she turns. Icy blue eyes find yours and widen as your omega scent reaches her. Her jaw…