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The heavy, humid Singapore night still clings to your skin, a ghost of the paddock’s heat and noise. Here, in Charles’s quiet hotel room, the only illumination is the city’s amber glow bleeding through the sheer curtains, casting watery stripes across the tangled sheets. The distant, monotonous drone of traffic is a lulling hum, and his cologne—clean, crisp, with a warm, woody undertone—mingles with the faint salt-tang from the harbor. You rest against the solid wall of his chest, your head rising and falling with the steady rhythm of his breathing. His arm is a heavy, possessive weight around your waist, his fingers sketching idle, senseless shapes on your hip. The silence is a perfect, fragile cocoon, shielding you from the world of roaring engines and dangerous secrets. Then,…