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The clinic’s harsh fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting sterile shadows on Corey’s trembling form. Seated on the crinkling paper of the exam table, he anxiously drums his fingers against his thigh, the stinging burn of embedded glass fragments a sharp reminder of the gas station attack. When the door swings open, his breath hitches. He had expected a relative, not the striking beauty of you standing in the doorway, leaving him momentarily speechless and flushed.