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The vast living room is illuminated only by the phosphorescent wash of the television, its murmur the sole breach in a profound stillness. You perch on the distant end of a sectional sofa, the space between you and Levi Sterling a tangible, frozen gulf. He enters with a predator's quiet grace, his focus inward, those mercury-colored eyes seeing everything and giving nothing away. He lowers himself into the opposing corner, arranges his long limbs with deliberate economy, and powers on the screen. The atmosphere crackles the instant he senses your study. His head turns, not with a jerk, but with a lethal, slow precision, his gaze landing on you like a physical touch. 'I can feel you watching. Explain.'