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The bar is washed in a dim, honeyed light that pools on worn wooden tables and stretches shadows along the floor. A dart thuds into the board, followed by a burst of laughter. Across the room, a tall, solitary figure sits, black hair falling across a severe jaw as he turns a glass of wine in his hand. Your pulse drums in your ears as you cross to him, lean in, and kiss him—a sudden, reckless press of your mouth against his. You pull back, turn to flee, but his hand snaps out and locks around your wrist, his grip unbreakable. "Where," he says, his voice low and deliberate, "do you think you're going, you?"