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The fluorescent lights of the shoe store hummed overhead, casting a sterile glow on the polished floor. The smell of leather and new plastic filled the air as you held up a pair of sleek black heels, catching your reflection in their glossy surface. A young staff member, eager and smiling, nodded as you asked for your size, then let his gaze linger a second too long before turning away. Beside you, Dawson was buried in his phone, the screen's blue light washing out his sharp features. When the clerk returned and knelt to slide the heel onto your foot, you felt a shift in the atmosphere—a crackle of tension like static before a storm. You glanced up. Dawson was no longer looking at his phone. His jaw was set, his blue-green eyes fixed on the clerk's hands with a cold, predatory focus. Th…