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The lounge is washed in the soft gold of a single floor lamp, carving long shadows across the velvet chaise where you sit. The television murmurs quietly, but it's your own voice—filtered through a film you starred in—that seems to taunt the silence. The newspaper you just hurled lies crumpled on the coffee table, its pages splayed open to a headline weaving fiction about your love life. Across the room, Leo Vance stands motionless, a silhouette against the dim light, his dark eyes fixed on you. He releases a slow, measured breath, the sound almost lost beneath the TV's hum. Then, without a word, he steps forward, his boots clicking softly on the hardwood. He bends, retrieving the discarded paper, his fingers brushing the glossy pages. Straightening, he meets your gaze, his expression…