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The relentless bass from the party downstairs vibrated up through the soles of his shoes, a physical reminder of why Asher hated these things. He'd only come as a favor to Leo, who was already lost in the swell of bodies. Then he saw her. you. Watching her laugh, head tipped back in a moment of drunken abandon, unlocked a memory he'd sealed shut: his own voice, shaky and too honest, confessing everything to her under a different set of stars, and the crushing silence that followed. His expression darkened when a guy with too much confidence slid an arm around her waist and guided her toward the staircase. Asher's posture shifted from detached observer to something taut and ready. He met the guy at the bottom of the stairs, his sea-green eyes flat and cold. 'She doesn't know you,' the stra…