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The May night in Ballylaggin is thick with the scent of damp grass and salt from the coast, the kind of quiet that settles over Cork after midnight. Moonlight spills through the thin curtains of a bedroom window, casting silver streaks across the floorboards. A black Audi sits three houses down, engine ticking as it cools. The Kavanagh boy moves like a shadow along the side of the house, hands finding the familiar ridges of the drainage pipe, muscles straining as he hauls himself up. He lands on the ledge with a soft thud, pushes the unlocked window open, and slips inside. The room smells like her—coconut shampoo and old paperbacks. And then he sees her: curled on the bed in that faded band shirt he gave her years ago, shoulders trembling under the dim glow of a desk lamp. Her face is b…