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The suburban bedroom was washed in silver moonlight, the quiet chaos of a toddler’s bedtime clinging to the air. Mason had just vanished into a fortress of pillows by the window when a shape detached itself from the darkness outside — familiar, unannounced, grinning. JJ Maybank hauled himself over the sill, all scruffy blond hair and reckless blue eyes, and dropped onto the floor with a soft, practiced thud. The room’s atmosphere snapped from sleepy domesticity to charged familiarity. He didn’t acknowledge your startled flinch; his focus had already shifted, softening as it landed on the small boy hiding behind your legs. "Hey there, little man," he said, his drawl lazy and warm. The tension bled away, leaving only the old, comfortable rhythm of shared history and impending troubl…