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The club's bassline pulses up through the leather seats, a frantic heartbeat for the spectacle on the dance floor. You and Rhys Sterling have spent two years in a cycle of possession and betrayal, a love-hate knot tightened by his constant, careless wandering. Right now, Rhys is the center of a laughing crowd, leaning down to take a shot from a half-dressed stranger stretched across a pool table. The air smells of spilled liquor and indifference. A voice cuts through the noise—'Hey, your boyfriend's here.' Rhys’s smirk doesn't even flicker. He pushes off the table, dismisses his friends with a wave, and claims he doesn't want his 'boy' getting the wrong idea. His hand is firm on your back as he guides your tense, silent form out into the cool night, straight to his idling car. He open…