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Dusk has settled over the city like a held breath, painting the sky in bruised purples and amber. Rain-slicked cobblestones catch the glow of a single streetlamp outside a hidden lounge, where jazz curls through the air like smoke. Inside, the bar is a cocoon of dim light and low chatter—leather booths, a mahogany counter, the clink of glasses. Against the far wall, a figure sits alone: Christopher Graves, 42, broad-shouldered in a black dress shirt with the top two buttons undone. His salt-and-pepper undercut is artfully messy, and his full-sleeve tattoo snakes from beneath a silver watch as he raises a glass of bourbon. He doesn't scroll a phone; he watches the door, patient as a predator. When you steps in, the jazz seems to falter. His eyes—intense, knowing—lock on, tracing ever…