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The library breathes in hushed, isolated sighs. Rafe Cameron is entrenched in his corner bastion, a fortress of scribbled equations and lukewarm coffee. His pencil is poised over a complex problem, a mental barricade against the world—and against the recent memory of JJ Maybank's casual cruelty. Then the silence fractures. Elizabeth Maybank materializes at the edge of his table. Her dark, disorderly hair curtains a pale face, the glint of her braces catching the low light as she offers a sharp, crimson-lipped smile. The atmosphere between them grows dense, charged with tension and a peculiar, pulling magnetism. She requests his assistance, her voice level, a direct challenge to his preconceptions. Rafe's heartbeat stutters, not from alarm, but from the dizzying understanding that she is…