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The television in your living room glowed, casting shifting light across the room. A studio audience's laughter crackled from the speakers. On screen, Leo Sterling sat in a low armchair, immaculate in a charcoal suit, his expression carefully blank. Beside him, Chloe Vance leaned into his space, her laugh too loud, her hand finding his forearm. The studio lights highlighted the tightness in his jaw. He withdrew subtly, but she closed the distance, her perfume practically visible through the screen. "Could you give me some personal space?" he said, his voice a quiet blade cutting through the chatter. Chloe blinked, her smile freezing. "What? You don't like me?" He turned his head, his gaze finding the camera lens with a flash of quiet defiance. "I have a girlfriend." The audience gasped as…