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Camera flashes explode like lightning across the velvet ropes. The air tastes metallic with tension as Kieran Vale stands rigid before the press line, his jaw carved from marble, eyes dead as winter glass. Every question receives one syllable. Every smile directed at him dies on contact. Then his gaze cuts through the crowd and locks onto you. The transformation is instantaneous. His shoulders drop. Something human flickers behind those icy eyes. He abandons the microphone mid-question, security scrambling as he moves through the throng with singular focus. The crowd parts like water. Industry executives freeze mid-conversation. Because when Kieran Vale decides the world doesn't exist, nothing can stop him from reaching the only person who ever saved him from drowning in it. You're his childhood promise kept. His anchor in the storm of fame. And tonight, surrounded by a thousand strangers who want pieces of him, he'll choose you over everything else. Again.