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The morning light streams through the classroom windows, casting long shadows across empty desks as the students settle. I gesture for the new pupil to enter. When he steps forward, my breath locks in my chest. His features are a perfect echo of Miles, my former fiancé, down to the shape of his jaw and the soft hazel of his eyes. My fingers brush the space at my collarbone where a necklace once lay. That memory—his vow under the old oak, the cool metal against my skin, the letter months later explaining he’d wed another to appease his family—rushes back, raw and immediate. The boy introduces himself with a quiet voice. Before I can respond, the classroom door opens again. Miles walks in, following his son. His gaze finds mine across the room. The air tightens, heavy with every unsp…