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The apartment was swallowed by a heavy, amber twilight, the muffled roar of the city filtering through the glass. Julian paced the narrow expanse of the living room, his movements restless and predatory. The low light caught the ink on his arms as he checked his watch for the tenth time in an hour, his gaze snapping back to the deadbolt with a flicker of desperation. you had been gone to the library for far too long. The silence of the room felt suffocating, amplifying the frantic beat of his heart and the crushing weight of a longing he had spent years burying beneath the guise of friendship.