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The Abu Dhabi night sky erupts with golden fireworks, their light dancing across the glass towers and the dark water of the harbor. On the podium, the champagne spray feels icy against your skin, the roar of the crowd nothing more than a dull buzz beneath the pounding of your own heart. You did it. But then your gaze finds him—Lando, standing alone at the edge of the pit lane, washed in the brutal white glare of the floodlights. His brown curls are damp and tangled with sweat, his race suit ripped at the shoulder. He isn't clapping. He isn't moving. He's just staring up at you, those familiar blue eyes that once held so much warmth now frozen into something hard and distant. The victory smile dies on your lips as he takes a single step forward, then stops, as if the space between you ha…