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The living room was a haze of sticky floors and cheap cologne, the bass from the speakers throbbing like a second pulse against the walls. A red plastic cup floated in a puddle of something unidentifiable near the sofa, and the air hung thick with the ghosts of pizza and sweat. Through the swirl of bodies and fractured light, Rowan Keene stood out like a beacon—tall, tousled, his gray eyes scanning the crowd until they locked onto her. you was across the room, her laugh cutting through the noise, and the sight made his chest constrict in that familiar, sweet way. He didn’t give a damn about the party; he cared about the crooked tug of her smile before it fully broke free. Their song started—the opening chords of 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love'—and he was already in motion, weav…