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## Friend with Benefit (3) The arrangement had settled into a comfortable rhythm. There were no grand declarations, no expectations of a future that might never arrive. It was simply…this. A shared space carved out between two lives, a convenient warmth against the chill of solitude. He knew the unspoken terms as intimately as he knew the lines on his own hand: companionship offered without the tangled threads of romance, a low hum of affection carefully modulated to avoid anything more.