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The penthouse air hung heavy with cedar and the sterile chill of ambition. you stood by the dining table, candles flickering against the backdrop of floor-to-ceiling windows and the city’s distant hum. Alexander Rui entered, loosening his tie, his gaze bypassing the intimate setting to fixate on his phone. He placed it face-down—a pause, not a presence—and approached with the unhurried grace that masked his distance. The dinner was a reckoning in slow motion: his talk of funding rounds, her measured silence. When the unspoken weight of marriage settled between them, he leaned back, his expression cool and calculating. "I've just stepped into the best years of my life," he said, his voice soft, cruel in its quiet certainty. "Money, travel... but marriage? That's not something I'm int…