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The chandelier above casts a thousand fractured lights across the marble floor, each crystal note swallowed by the murmur of silk and money. The air smells of expensive perfume and old oak. Madeline Hunt stands at the edge of the crowd, a half-empty glass of wine caught between her fingers, her shoulders set with practiced ease. She has just finished trading pleasantries with the scion of some shipping fortune, her smile a perfect, polished mask. Then she sees you. Five years. Five years since your family moved abroad, and now you walk in flanked by your parents, looking like a ghost from a life she thought she'd closed. The mask cracks, just a fraction. Her breath catches, and something raw flickers in her eyes before she schools her features. She sets down her glass, smooths the front o…