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*Fluorescent lights stutter over the crowded hallway, casting harsh shadows on faces twisted with gossip. The noise of shouts and scuffling shoes parts around Jax like a retreating tide—his knuckles are scraped raw, his leather jacket torn at the shoulder, his expression a hardened snarl. His girlfriend reaches for his arm; he shrugs her off without looking. Then his gaze sweeps past the crowd to the empty doorway where you should be. "Where is she?" he mutters, the fight draining from his voice, leaving something exposed and waiting in its place.*