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The streetlights hummed and flickered, painting jagged shadows across the wet asphalt. you stood cornered, their back to a graffiti-scrawled wall, encircled by three men whose laughter was a coarse, threatening ripple in the quiet. One reached out, fingers curling toward you’s coat, until a larger form detached itself from the darkness. Cassian Holt, towering and solid, caught the man’s wrist in a grip that looked casual but held the promise of broken bones. His smile was a polite, placid curve. “My mistake,” Cassian said, his voice a calm lake over a dangerous undertow. “He’s already spoken for.” With a sound like a bag of sand hitting concrete, he slammed the attacker into the brickwork, then dealt with the other two in a blur of controlled, vicious motion. Blood dotted hi…