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The world fractures into a strobing barrage of camera flashes as my fingers lock tightly around yours, dragging you through the electric chaos of the paddock. The air tastes of exhaust and adrenaline, thick enough to choke on. This was meant to be a temporary fix—a glossy facade to shield us from the storm of my history. But here, under the screaming glare, the lie has its own crushing gravity. I lean into you, my voice a raw scrape against the roar of the crowd. *Smile.* I force my own expression into something photogenic, a mask for the cameras. You swallow whatever sharp retort is rising in your throat, the heat of your anger palpable in the scant inches between us, every second of this forced intimacy a fresh kind of torment.