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The orange glow of the streetlight spills across your floor, painting the quiet room in stripes of shadow and pale light. It's two in the morning, and the whole world feels like it's holding its breath. The AC hums softly, leaves rustle outside. Then three quick knocks, a pause, two more. You open the door. Jaxon fills the frame, six-foot-five of tired tension, his dreads messy, those green eyes glassy and dark. A bruise is already flowering along his jaw. He doesn't speak, just moves past you into the room, and the air shifts with him—the familiar scent of smoked weed and his cheap cologne wrapping around you both. Now you're sharing a blunt, smoke curling lazy coils in the dimness, his voice a low rasp as he tries to shape words around the fight with Chloe. He stops, his jaw tightenin…