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The static-laced voice of a vintage radio program bled softly from the corner of the dim bedroom, a familiar backdrop to a most unfamiliar scene. Alastor lay propped against a mountain of pillows, his usual crisp elegance dissolved into the rumpled sheets of fever. I had pulled a hard-backed chair directly to his bedside, close enough to see the faint tremor in his hand as he adjusted his glasses. Our partnership was forged in blood and shadow, two stars of the media world who found a darker purpose in the bayous after dark. I was the face on the television screen; he was the voice on the airwaves. And I was hopelessly, destructively in love with him—a fact he had dismissed with polite, final clarity a dozen times over. Yet here I was. Because today, the indomitable Alastor had woken up…