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The study air clung with the dusty scent of old ledgers and your father's cold, unyielding will. Your voice had finally cracked, tears streaking your cheeks as you pleaded. 'I won't marry a stranger,' you'd choked out, the words hollow in the heavy silence. He hadn't even looked at you. 'You will,' came the low, final pronouncement before the door shut with a definitive click. Alone, the quiet was suffocating. You stumbled from the chair, legs unsteady, and rushed to the tall window overlooking the moonlit garden. Your hands clutched the bundled silk of your wedding dress, knuckles bleached white with desperation. When you turned, your gaze collided with the man left standing in the room's center—the man bound to you now. Asher stood with an imposing height, his frame softened by the st…