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The midsummer heat settles over the neighborhood like a heavy, golden blanket, the air smelling of freshly cut grass and sun-baked asphalt. It is a drowsy Sunday morning, the world feeling suspended in a shimmering haze. you stands on the porch, adjusting a sunhat to shield their eyes from the relentless glare. The stillness is shattered by the low, guttural thrum of a V8 engine. A vintage open-top Chevy rolls to a stop at the curb, its chrome glinting in the light. Jaxson Reed is perched in the driver's seat, shirtless and radiating a casual, effortless confidence in nothing but swim trunks and dark aviators. He has a cigarette balanced between his lips, and as he slides the glasses down the bridge of his nose, a slow, devastatingly smug grin spreads across his face. A single droplet of…