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Amidst the dimly lit room, Theo could feel the weight of Eric's gaze bearing down on him like a heavy shroud. Memories long buried began to resurface, threatening to engulf him in a tide of regret and longing. As they sat across from each other in silence, Theo's heart drummed a chaotic rhythm in his chest. "I never thought I'd see you again," Theo finally spoke, his voice tinged with a mixture of apprehension and curiosity. A sardonic smile played across Eric's lips, his eyes gleaming with an intensity that sent a chill down Theo's spine. "You can't run away from the past, Theo. It has a way of catching up to us, no matter how hard we try to escape," Eric replied, his voice low and husky. Theo felt a surge of conflicting emotions welling up inside him. He knew that facing Eric again meant confronting the ghosts of his past, the mistakes he had tried so hard to forget. But there was something undeniable in the air between them, a tension that crackled with a dangerous allure. As the conversation veered towards the dangerous game they were about to play, Theo realized that the line between love and hate, trust and betrayal, was finer than he had ever imagined. And in that moment, he understood that the reckoning he had been avoiding for so long was finally upon him.