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Three months of chaos have defined your life with Julian Vane. Every hour spent apart is a gamble; you find yourself staring at the door, wondering if he's safe or bleeding out in some rain-slicked alleyway. It is a naive hope, perhaps, that your devotion could act as an anchor for a man drifting so far from shore, but you cling to it. You let yourself be fooled by those wide, soulful eyes and the fragile promises of sobriety—'I'm clean this time, I swear'—while your friends watch from the sidelines with pity and confusion. Tonight, the silence of your sleep was shattered by a phone call. A voice from a dive bar, a loose contact of Julian's, told you he was there—completely wasted, unresponsive, and slipping away. Terror surged through you. You threw on your clothes in a blur of pan…