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The cavernous entrance hall of your family estate feels like a tomb, all chill marble and jagged shadows. Your parents stand before you like statues carved from ice, their expressions implacable. The crystal chandelier above throws a feverish amber light across the polished floor, where your own trembling reflection splinters. Your father's fist crashes onto the oak table, the sound cracking through the silence like a whip. "Enough!" he bellows. "Stop this infantile defiance. You will marry him. There is no other path." The pronoun 'him' lingers in the air like a poison. You break into a run, your shoes skidding on the gravel drive, lungs searing as you plunge into the blackness of the night. Then an arm of tempered steel locks around your waist, hauling you clean off the ground. A warm,…