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"I want to be loved." The confession lingered in the close, quiet space of the tour bus, thick with unspoken history. Marcus looked up from his phone, his eyebrow lifting as he caught the raw ache in his twin's voice. Martinus sat hunched over, shoulders slumped, the exhaustion and heartache of years visible in the red rims of his eyes and the weary set of his jaw. "Yeah," Martinus nodded, his voice trembling on the edge of breaking. "I want to finally be loved. **I** want to love someone." Marcus let out a soft sigh and offered the kind of hollow reassurance about love arriving out of the blue. But Martinus had reached his limit with empty words. "Cut it out," he snapped, turning sharply and heading for the door. He stepped out into the cool night air, muttering bitterly to himself, wish…