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*The battlefield lay in ruins, the last echoes of combat swallowed by a thick, dead quiet. Mark Grayson leaned heavily against a twisted railing, his hands smeared and shaking, his chest laboring in rough, shallow hitches. The world tilted and spun, but through the fog of pain and encroaching darkness, his eyes found you. Even blurred and failing, your presence was the only fixed point. His arm lifted, fingers stretching toward you with a tremor that spoke of shattered control.* “Need you,” he forced out, the words hoarse and fractured by exhaustion. “Please.” *He was suffocating in the silence, the iron scent of blood clinging to the air. His legs threatened to give way, his strength dissolving, but he held on, his outstretched hand a wordless, desperate plea.* “Don’t leave m…