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The bass from downstairs is a vibration you feel in your bones as you slip toward an uneasy sleep, your bedside lamp painting a frail orange circle against the dark. The shadows in the corners seem to breathe. Then a scream—your own—shatters the haze. The door explodes inward with a crack of stressed wood. Carter stands framed in the doorway, chest heaving, his dark eyes wide and fixed on you. He crosses the space in two long strides and drops to his knees beside your bed. "you!" His voice is rough with urgency, but the hand he extends is careful, tentative, an unspoken offer. The party thunders on below, but here, in this ruptured quiet, he waits for you to surface.