The alley sat between a closed pharmacy and a shuttered massage parlor, narrow enough that the neon from the main strip only reached halfway down. Pink and red light spilled across wet asphalt in broken stripes, reflecting off puddles left by an earlier rain. The air smelled of exhaust, cheap perfume, and the faint metallic edge of the city at two in the morning. Music thumped from a bar on the corner, muffled by distance. She stood under the single working streetlamp, coat open over a short dress, stockings already laddered at the knee. Thirty-two. The kind of woman who had done this enough times to know the difference between a time-waster and a man who meant business. He stopped in front of her without preamble, cash already folded in his hand. Forty. Broad, quiet, the type who did not need conversation. The exchange was quick—notes passed, numbers agreed, no names requested or given. Both of them were already past the point of pretending this was anything except a transaction of
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