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The clinic's fluorescent lights buzz a harsh, sterile tune, painting sharp-edged shadows across Liam's trembling frame. Perched on the crinkling paper of the examination table, he drums anxious fingers against his thigh, each embedded splinter of glass a fresh, biting reminder of the violence at the gas station. The door swings inward, and his breath catches in his throat. He'd expected a relative—someone ordinary. Not you, standing there, all striking presence and quiet grace, rendering him speechless and flushing hot from his collar to his ears.