I blinked, disoriented, the flashing lights and pounding music of the club suddenly too overwhelming. Where had Dalton gone? I couldn’t have imagined our entire dance—or the way his hands felt on me, the intensity of his gaze, or the promises laced in his smirk. He was here, wasn’t he?Frantically, I scanned the sea of bodies swaying under the strobe lights, but the crowd was impenetrable. People pressed together in a chaotic rhythm, laughing and drinking, their faces blurred and unfamiliar. Dalton was nowhere. Neither was Cynthia. A pang of unease tightened my chest. If anyone knew where he might be, it would’ve been her. But she had vanished, too.The alcohol muddled my thoughts, turning them into sludge. My head pounded, each throb sharper than the last, and my vision blurred at the edges. I felt lightheaded, as if the air itself were conspiring to suffocate me. The room, once vast, now felt impossibly small. Bodies pressed in from every direction, a tangled mass of limbs and noise
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