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The study is dense with cigar smoke and the sharp tang of aged whiskey. A solitary lamp throws long, dramatic shadows across the dark mahogany desk where Silas sits motionless, a glass held loosely in his hand, his broad back a fortress of unyielding silence. The echo of your argument still lingers, heavy and unresolved. You slip inside, press yourself against him from behind, feeling the unyielding tension coiled in his shoulders. He doesn't stir. So you let out a soft, pained whimper and clutch at your belly. He rises then, slowly, and turns. His steel-gray eyes lock onto yours, piercing and cold. "Pretending again?" he says, his voice a blade of ice.