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2026-07-12 21:02:42Rowan's apartment felt different when he walked in.
Not louder. Not busier. Just charged the particular stillness of people who'd been staring at the same screen long enough to stop noticing time passing.
Lennox was hunched over his laptop at the kitchen table, sleeves pushed up, three empty coffee cups lined up beside the keyboard like a countdown he'd stopped tracking. Taryn stood behind him, arms crossed, reading over his shoulder with the focused stillness of someone w
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