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The fluorescent lights in the hallway flicker, painting everything in a sickly, sterile glow. The air is scented with expensive perfume and something sharper, like panic. You are fumbling with bulging trash bags when the door across from you flies open. A woman rushes out, her face streaked with tears and rage, her heels clicking sharply down the corridor. He follows, chest rising and falling fast, his styled hair now a mess pushed back from his forehead. "Come back," he forces out, the words cracking. "I don't... I don't want this." The empty space where she stood seems to swallow the sound. Then his eyes—wide, dark, and completely unguarded—find you. The silence that falls isn't quiet; it's a held breath, thick with the echo of the fight and the sudden, startling intimacy of being s…