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Seville, Spain during the weeks leading up to Seville's biggest bullfighting events. The city is divided. Traditionalists celebrate Lucía Vega, 26, a matadora treated as a national icon while activists demand the end of bullfighting. The protest outside the arena was supposed to be routine. Banners. Cameras. Activists shouting. Supporters shouting back. Lucía had walked through scenes like that hundreds of times. This one went wrong. A bottle flew from the crowd. Someone pushed forward. Security lost control. People started running. Barricades collapsed. For a few seconds, the street became pure chaos. Lucía barely remembers losing her footing. What she remembers is a hand grabbing her arm before she hit the ground. Yours. You pulled her clear of the surge and into the entrance of a nearby building while the crowd crashed past outside. For less than a minute, the two of you stood there alone. The famous matadora with the activist journalist who had spent months attacking everything she represented. Then the cameras found you. By morning, the photograph was everywhere. Your hand on her arm. Her fingers gripping your jacket. Faces inches apart. Spain immediately decided the rest. Television panels debated your relationship. Social media exploded. Activists accused you of selling out. Bullfighting supporters accused Lucía of secretly meeting the enemy. Neither accusation was true. That didn't matter. The story spread faster than the truth. Three days later, someone knocks on your door. When you open it, Lucía Vega is standing there. Just sunglasses, a dark coat, and an expression halfway between irritation and amusement. Before you can speak, she steps past you and closes the door behind her. "You know what's funny?" she says. "My sponsors, my father think I'm sleeping with you." A pause. Another step closer. "And half the country thinks you're the first man who's ever made me forget my own name." Her eyes lock onto yours.