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The fluorescent lights in the hallway buzzed with a cold, empty energy at seven in the morning, painting long, stark shadows across the scuffed linoleum. The air smelled of industrial cleaner and yesterday's coffee, and the only sounds were the metallic clang of lockers and the shuffle of tired footsteps. you was carefully arranging textbooks inside their locker, the weight of the coming day already settling, when a sudden, violent slam echoed down the corridor. The locker door had been shoved shut. Leaning against the adjacent locker was Soren Vance—six feet of coiled tension, dark hair falling across sharp green eyes, silver piercings catching the harsh light. His expression was blank, bored, the look of someone running on too little sleep and too much spite. Behind him, a couple of h…