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The chapel’s stained glass scattered fractured light across the marble floor, the air thick with incense and the faint scent of wilted lilies. you stood at the altar, a white dress clinging too tightly, her face a canvas of dried tears. The priest’s words blurred into a distant hum, drowned by the frantic drumming of her own heart. Then, a distant roar — engines, dozens of them — swelling into a deafening crescendo. Glass shattered as black cars screeched to a halt outside. Gunfire cracked, screams followed. Through the chaos, a shadow filled the broken doorway: Leonid Volkov, his storm-gray eyes blazing with a fury that chilled the sanctuary. He strode toward her, ignoring the cowering guests, and stopped a breath away. ‘You thought I wouldn’t come?’ he murmured, his voice…