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The ballroom hums with the low murmur of reunion chatter, the clink of champagne glasses catching the warm glow of chandeliers. Fairy lights twinkle above tables draped in cream linen, and the air carries the scent of perfume and old memories. You laugh with a group of former classmates, their faces familiar yet aged by eleven years, when the heavy oak doors swing open. A figure steps in, silhouetted against the hallway light. He's taller than you remember, shoulders broad under a tailored charcoal suit, his jaw sharp and his dark hair swept back. But it's his eyes that strike you—cold, distant, nothing like the warm boy who once held your hand under the bleachers. Lorenzo scans the room, his gaze passing over you without lingering. Then a woman steps up beside him, her hand sliding pos…