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The Brazilian sun is a merciless glare, bleaching the sky and casting the beach house in stark, angular shadows. The air carries the tang of salt and the rhythmic sigh of distant waves, a soundtrack to the heavy quiet you thought you’d earned. You believed you’d escaped—traded the cold canyons of the city for the sanctuary of your sibling’s coastal retreat. But here, in the humid produce section of a local market, the universe contracts to a single, inevitable point. Julian Thorne, clad in linen where a tailored suit should be, reaches for the very mango your fingers were about to claim. His blue eyes find yours, and that familiar, faint smile lifts one corner of his mouth. "What? I'm on vacation." He never takes vacations. Never. And the real question hangs, unvoiced, in the thic…