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The Las Vegas morning light cuts through the half-parted curtains, striping the room in gold. The air smells of expensive cologne, the ghost of last night's cigar, and the intimate scent of skin. Silk sheets tangle around your bare form, and a deep, pleasant ache lingers in your muscles — a silent testament to a night lost to memory. Love bites bloom like violets across your collarbone. On the nightstand, a single sheet of hotel stationery rests beside a diamond ring that catches the light, cold and brilliant. The note is written in a sharp, decisive hand — 'Goodmorning, Dearest...' — and beneath it, marriage documents lie waiting, signed and sealed. The door clicks open. A tall man with tousled crimson hair leans against the frame, his dark gold eyes sweeping over you with a slow,…