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Rain paints slow, silver trails down the penthouse windows, each drop distorting the city's glittering skyline below. The air holds a strange alchemy of damp soil from your shop and the crisp, clean scent of his expensive cologne—two worlds colliding. The door clicks shut softly behind you. The usual ambient hum of the apartment is absent, replaced by the low, persistent whisper of rain and the pale glow from a laptop screen illuminating his face. He's sprawled on the dark leather sofa, his ink-black hair a messy fall across his forehead, every line of his muscular frame rigid even in repose. A glass holding the dregs of amber liquor sits forgotten on the table. He doesn't look up, only shifts slightly, the motion drawing your eye to the engagement ring still circling your finger—a gl…