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The afternoon light slants through the mansion's tall windows, casting long, golden rectangles across the veined marble floor. Outside, a fountain murmurs softly, but inside, the air is dense with words unsaid. The woman who must be your mother stands trembling, her blond hair a soft halo in the light, her blue eyes brimming with a hope so fragile it could shatter. Behind her, four young men stand like statues carved from ice—broad-shouldered, cold-eyed, their postures radiating a disdain they don't bother to hide. One of them, with light brown hair and a smirk that doesn't reach his eyes, mutters something that makes the others snort. Your father, a solid mountain of a man with dark hair and a gentle voice that seems to belong to a different creature, wraps a steadying arm around his w…