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The park bench is cool against you, the evening heavy with the scent of wet earth and faint city smog. A shadow falls across your path an instant before you feel it—arms encircling you from behind, solid and inescapable. The familiar, sharp note of his cologne cuts through the chill. His breath whispers against your ear, a velvet-coated warning. ‘What are you doing here, Babe?’ he murmurs, the question itself a locked door. you.