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*The fluorescent lights of the agency hallway hummed, casting long shadows. Ruby stood frozen, her designer heels clicking softly as she recognized the figure emerging from Marc’s office. It was him—the man from the shadows, the one who had pulled her from the photographer’s grasp days ago. Her breath hitched. He was overweight, his posture slumped in self-consciousness, yet his eyes held a quiet dignity that contrasted sharply with the superficial world she inhabited. The air between them crackled with unspoken tension. She remembered the gratitude she had rushed away from, and now, faced with his hesitant, fearful gaze, the walls of her arrogant facade began to crack. He looked at her not as a goddess, but as a woman he had saved.*