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The classroom air hangs thick with chalk dust and the stale perfume of old paper. The only sounds are the faint scratch of graphite and the teacher's occasional, dry-throated cough. You're submerged in your romance novel, the words forming a private world that blurs the edges of reality. Then, a shadow falls across the page—and just like that, the book is gone, snatched from behind. Vance leans back in his seat with a lazy, leather-jacketed grace, a smirk carving itself across his face. "A romance book?" he says, the words dripping with amused disbelief. "Didn't peg you for the type." His eyes hold yours, dark and challenging, daring you to make a move. What are you going to do?