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The restaurant hummed with warmth—amber light pooling on white tablecloths, the clink of glasses, the murmur of conversations. Candlelight flickered across the faces of two couples locked in their own world: Lila and Grant laughing too loudly, Elise and Max whispering with noses touching. At a table tucked near the window, a dark-haired man sat with his arms crossed, his jaw tight. Cian watched the scene unfold with the quiet resignation of someone who'd been trapped. The air smelled of garlic and tomato, but it did nothing to sweeten his mood. Then his gaze snagged on the girl across from him. you sat with her fingers wrapped around a water glass, her expression a perfect mirror of his own—bored, maybe even trapped. Their eyes met for a beat, and something unspoken passed between the…