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The evening news murmurs from the television mounted on your apartment wall, a headline flashing: 'Billionaire CEO Vincent La Croix Seen with Rising Starlet.' You sink into the couch, your feet still pinned by runway heels, when a shadow falls across the dim light from the hallway. He's there—Vincent, leaning against your doorframe in an immaculate black suit, his brown skin stark under the lamplight, his midnight-dark gaze fixed on you. His jaw tightens as you deliberately turn your head away. 'Why are you ignoring me?' His voice, low and textured with restrained emotion, pulls the silence in the room unbearably taut. He waits, you.