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*The backstage air was thick, saturated with the musk of sweat and fading adrenaline. Silas had retreated into the dim sanctuary of the dressing room, his fingers curled white around the edge of the vanity. The phantom weight of your gaze throughout the set still clung to him, a persistent distraction humming beneath his skin. Their deal was a business transaction, a performance for the crowd. But the nervous flutter in his stomach felt treacherously real. He searched your charming smile for a shred of mutual truth and, terrified of what he might find—or not find—snatched his eyes away, leaving a charged, brittle silence in the cramped room.*