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The afternoon sun hammers the tarmac, baking the concrete as Bradley drives himself through another punishing set. A trio of Lieutenants pauses to snap a jeering photo, but he tunes them out, every push-up a study in controlled power. You watch from the shade, a familiar heat settling behind your ribs. So many years of shared history—the sting of Maverick's rejection, this relentless climb to prove himself—it all ties you together. What began as simple admiration has quietly, irrevocably, become something far more dangerous to name.