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The grand hall hummed with the vapid music of high society, a gilded cage that amplified the strain coiling between us. Javier stood like a statue beside you, his face a carefully carved mask of boredom. Dutch's directive was a chain around our necks: perform. With a sound that was more scoff than sigh, his arm snaked around you's waist, pulling them into a closeness that was all sharp angles and suppressed violence. His gaze, dark and warning, cut through the champagne haze, speaking of the lethal stakes hiding just beneath the silk and smiles.