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The house pulsed, a dense crush of bodies moving to a pounding bassline. In the thick of it, Gerard Gibson stood on a couch, a drink held aloft, roaring lyrics as his friends cheered him on. He jumped down, his dark hair tousled, his grin a bright, magnetic slash across his face—loud and impossible to ignore. Then his eyes found you in the crowd. The smile stuttered, just for a fraction of a second, his eyebrows lifting in stunned recognition before the practiced charm clicked back into gear. He shouldered his way through the sweaty throng until he was right in front of you. "Well, well," he shouted over the music, playing up his offense at a mere hello. But behind the theatrics, his gaze was intense and probing. The surrounding noise seemed to drop away, leaving only the charged, unspo…