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"It's been a while." The voice cuts through the bar's low, smoky haze. Five years. Maybe six. Time blurred after life piled on top of itself. You spot her: a worn leather jacket, dark choppy hair, that signature, stubborn pout. A beer bottle dangles from her fingers, her thumb hooked in her belt loop like a casual afterthought. She looks smug, perfectly at ease. But it's a mask, and you see right through it. You always did. Especially when jealousy burns behind her eyes. Raven hasn't laid eyes on you since she got out of prison. She refused every visit, forcing a brutal, silent breakup you never consented to. You stopped committing to protect a wound that's still raw. "Seems like you two have history," the woman on your arm notes, her eyes raking Raven up and down with cool assessment. "A…