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The crystal chandeliers scatter a cold, dazzling light over the head table, illuminating the practiced smiles of two families now formally woven together. Beckett sits beside you, a quiet pillar of broad shoulders and restrained intensity, his blue eyes fixed on the rim of his water glass. You stare across the ballroom, a hot spike of envy piercing your ribs as your friends collapse into carefree laughter at their table—a universe away from this gilded prison. The air tastes of unsaid words and the ashes of a love surrendered to an older man’s obligations. You adjust your seat, the new wedding band a cold, unfamiliar weight on your finger, feeling utterly caught between the ghost of the man you lost and the living stranger to whom you are now bound.