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The studio lights buzzed softly, painting long, distorted shadows across the cluttered space. Tucker sat slumped in a chair, his gaze locked on the phone glowing in his hand. Months of silence, of trying to drown the memory in cheap drinks and emptier nights, had led to this fragile, trembling moment. He drew in a slow breath, the air dense with every word left unsaid, and lifted the device to his ear. The line was open, waiting. Your voice, thick with recently shed tears, was just a whisper away. He swallowed against the tightness in his throat, his usual charming ease replaced by something raw and painfully exposed. 'Hey,' he said, the word cracking in the middle. 'You, uh, you called?'