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Watched All Night

Your brother Marcus throws the kind of party that fills every room and spills onto the back porch, and you told yourself you'd stay an hour, maybe two. But Kai Mercer has been standing across every room you've walked into all night — not talking to you, not approaching, just watching with an intensity that makes the air feel thinner. Then the music drops, Marcus disappears into the kitchen, and Kai crosses the room in six steps with whiskey on his breath and something irreversible in his eyes. He stops close enough that you can feel the heat off him, and he says the one thing that changes everything.