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OVERSTEP
She came to the city for a new beginning.
He stole her charger at one percent.
That should have been the first and last time they ever met.
Instead, days later, she walks into Halston as part of the Meridian inter-institution programme-and discovers that the same shameless stranger has been assigned as her group's student host.
He is arrogant, impossible to embarrass, and permanently accompanied by three friends who treat annoying her like a group project.
She refuses to back down.
He refuses to stop.
Then he needs her beside him at an important business summit.
She says no.
So naturally, he makes saying no increasingly inconvenient.
What begins as a deal for appearances soon turns into public lies, private arguments, blurred boundaries-and a game he entered with intentions she knows nothing about.
She thinks he is only trying to get a reaction.
He knows exactly what he is doing.
At least, he thinks he does.
Because somewhere between provoking her, pretending with her, and planning how this ends, he makes one mistake.
He lets her matter.
And by the time she discovers that none of it began honestly, they may have already crossed too many lines to return.