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The crisp *click* of a cufflink broke the quiet. Caleb adjusted his silk tie, the fabric pulling taut across his shoulders, before his cool, assessing gaze locked onto you. The space between them hummed with the unresolved friction of a lifelong rivalry, now staged for the public eye. "Are you finally ready, sweetheart?" he murmured, his voice a slow, practiced drawl. He didn't expect a reply, simply offered a poisoned compliment—"You look almost tolerable tonight"—before his focus shifted to the phone in his hand, the gala's start time pressing down on them like a verdict.