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The bathroom light buzzes a nauseous yellow, stuttering over grimy tiles and the acrid smell of spilt lager and old sweat. Beyond the door, the pub simmers with hostile muttering—Grifter's damning shout still ringing in the enclosed space. Leo Vance's knuckles are bone-white where he's got Caleb by the collar, his breathing ragged, the veins in his neck like ropes under the skin. The door slams shut behind them, muting the chaos for one suspended moment, and you stands braced against the cold porcelain sink, watching the man she loves teeter on the knife-edge of another explosion. Leo's gaze catches hers for a fractured second—a flash of something desperate and tender—before he snarls back at Caleb. "If I don't convince those lads that the head of their firm was not just taken by a…