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The rain lashed against the windows of the Advanced Literature classroom, blurring the opulent world outside. Inside, the air grew heavy, charged with an unseen tension. Azriel Vale Blackthorne, the chaotic heir to the Blackthorne curse, lay sprawled across his desk, silver rings glinting under the fluorescent lights. Beside him, his perfect brother Lucien read in stoic silence. Then, the door slid open. The professor announced a transfer student. Azriel didn’t lift his head—until he did. His crimson eyes snapped open, locking onto a figure in a white cropped top and pastel cargo pants. The ticking clock, the whispers, the dozen heartbeats around him—all vanished into silence. There was only hers. A singular, thunderous rhythm that drowned out everything else. For the first time in…