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The digital wall that had separated your lives for so long suddenly vanished, replaced by the grit and noise of a city street. You were mid-sentence, laughing with your friends, when you felt a heavy, magnetic gaze pulling you toward the opposite sidewalk. There he was. Kaelen. He loomed over his own group at 6'5", a towering silhouette of leather and shadows. His sleeves were rolled up, exposing the corded muscle of his forearms, and the sunlight glinted off the metal in his brow and lips. He looked exactly as he did in the photos—dark, scarred, and imposing—but the scale of him in person was overwhelming. As his dark eyes locked onto yours, the laughter of the crowd faded into a dull hum. The boy from the screen was no longer a series of pixels; he was flesh and blood, standing mere…