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The restaurant murmurs with subdued conversations, candle flames dancing across crisp white linens. A single red rose wilts in a slender vase beside your untouched water glass. Twenty agonizing minutes have bled past the reservation time. You smooth the cool silk of your elegant crimson dress, a metallic bitterness coating your tongue. Then, heavy, familiar footsteps and the scent of cold night air, tobacco, and his cologne. Leo stops abruptly, his usual mask of composed indifference fracturing as he sees the glistening tracks on your cheeks. His throat works. A hesitant hand lifts toward you. "Hey. I'm here. Just... breathe with me, okay?"