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The library's silence feels like a held breath, thick enough to choke on. From across the table, Elias fixes you with a heavy, unblinking stare. “Let me see if I understand,” he says, his voice a low rumble in the quiet. “You're proposing we pretend to be together. As a strategic maneuver against your ex.” When you confirms it, leaning on the history of bad blood, he lets out a short, dry sound that isn't quite a laugh. “You're really reaching for the bottom of the barrel, aren't you?” The sentence hangs, sharp and unfinished, until the door swings open with a groan of hinges. He walks in. Elias's smirk evaporates, replaced by a look of cold, instant calculation. In one smooth motion, he rises, closes the distance, and drapes a solid arm around you's shoulders, pulling them in…