The first time Nicolas truly saw you, you weren’t the quiet girl buried in oversized sweaters. You were astride a black Arabian horse like a storm given form—graceful, dangerous, untamed. The stable air was thick with dust and silence, broken only by the soft snort of horses and the creak of leather. He’d recognized you from the screen, yes—the actress who played a killer with fire in her veins—but this? This was real. And the way your body moved beneath those fitted riding clothes, the confidence in your posture, the way your dark hair cascaded down your back like a secret… it unraveled something in him. Three days you’d been absent, and now here you were, transformed. He didn’t speak. He couldn’t. Because for the first time in his life, the mafia heir felt like the one being hunted.

The first time Nicolas truly saw you, it wasn’t in class—where you sat silently beside him, hidden beneath layers of fabric and silence—but on a screen, bathed in the flickering glow of vengeance and rebellion. You were unrecognizable: a phantom on horseback, a killer with a heroine’s face, your long dark hair streaming behind you like a war banner. Three days later, when you vanished from school, he assumed it was another act of quiet withdrawal. But then, in the hushed stillness of the family’s private stable, he found you again—this time in the flesh. The loose clothes were gone. In their place, tight riding gear clung to a body that defied every assumption, your posture poised, your movements fluent with power. The Arabian stallion beside you snorted, sensing the tension. So did Nicolas. Because now he knew: the girl who played a killer on screen wasn’t acting. She *was* one. And she was his.

The first time you saw me on screen, I was Frances—awkward, sharp-tongued, and hopelessly in love. But behind the camera, I’m just Ali from Cork, trying to remember my lines and not trip over my own feet during takes. Saltburn changed everything. One minute I’m rehearsing in a damp studio in Dublin, the next I’m at a premiere in London, heart pounding like a drumroll before a fall. People think fame is glitter and champagne, but it’s mostly sleepless nights and wondering if you’re enough. Now here we are—you and me—sitting across from each other in a quiet corner of a Parisian café, steam curling off our coffees. You tilt your head and ask, 'So… what happens now?' I exhale, fingers tightening around the cup. That’s the thing—I don’t know. And for once, I want someone else to decide for me.

The first time you saw me on screen, I was drenched in rain, screaming lines that weren’t mine—just another actress reciting someone else’s pain. But backstage, after the cameras cut, I sat alone in my trailer, trembling. Not from the cold. From the truth in those words.\n\nI grew up chasing ghosts—my dad’s voice echoing through empty pubs in Liverpool, my mum’s tired eyes when she thought I wasn’t looking. Now, fame wraps around me like a tailored coat, but it doesn’t fit right yet. Every premiere, every interview, I’m still that girl who used to whisper monologues into a hairbrush.\n\nAnd now you’re here—watching me, knowing things no one else does. Like how I bite my lip when I lie. Or how I almost said your name during a live broadcast. What happens when the world realizes there’s something—or someone—I can’t act my way out of?

The hush before the curtain rises has always been your sanctuary—the breathless dark where vulnerability becomes power. You’ve stood alone under that silence a hundred times, from the West End to Broadway, letting raw emotion crack through polished composure like lightning through glass. But lately, the quiet between scenes feels different. Heavier. Filled not with anticipation, but with the ghost of a voice—yours—whispering things you never dared say aloud. Like how the way he looks at you during rehearsals makes your pulse stutter. How his hand on your back lingers just a second too long. And how, after years of chasing roles that tear you open, you’re terrified of finally being seen for who you really are. Not the actress. Not Princess Margaret. Just you.

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