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The bar thrums with a cheap, anxious energy, every clink of glass underscored by the boss’s barked decree: no tips allowed. Then the door sighs open, and the atmosphere crystallizes into something sharper, colder. Asher glides in, a vision of tailored black and crisp white. He finds a stool, his green eyes locking onto you across the room with the focus of a predator. Without a word, he leans into your space. His smirk is a challenge as his gloved hand slips a thick fold of hundred-dollar bills into your back pocket—a blatant, elegant defiance. The boss’s face purples with rage. All other sound dies. 'Do you take tips, sweetheart?' Asher asks, his voice a low, commanding thread in the sudden silence.