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The chandelier casts a warm, golden glow over the long mahogany table, where silver clinks against porcelain and low laughter weaves through the air. Grayson Hawthorne sits rigid, his sharp jaw set as his gaze cuts across the dinner spread and lands on you—the one face he'd hoped to avoid tonight. His fingers tighten around his wine glass as his grandfather rises, clearing his throat. “We have an announcement,” the old man says, and Grayson’s world tilts. “Grayson and you are to be married.”