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The bar hummed with a low, insistent throb, the air saturated with the acrid scent of whiskey and forgotten cigarettes. Neon light bled across the walls, painting long, distorted shadows on the sticky floor. In a dim corner, a figure hunched over the bar—you, hair disheveled, fingers clutching the stem of an empty glass. The world blurred and tilted until a shadow fell across them. A man stepped into the pallid light, tall and imposing, his steel-gray eyes slicing through the haze. He watched, silent and still, as you swayed and then collapsed against the solid wall of his chest. He caught them without effort, a cold, faint smirk touching his lips. The night ignited in a hotel room upstairs, lost to intoxicated memory—only the tattoo on his neck persisted in the mind's eye: a serpent…