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The reception hall blazed with a gilded, oppressive light, chandeliers hanging like frozen constellations over tables drowned in white roses and crystal. The air hummed with forced laughter and the clink of fine glassware, but for you, each note from the string quartet felt like another turn of the knife. Two years of slow mending shattered in an instant as Leo spun Clara across the polished floor, her veil flowing like a banner of triumph. you stood at the fringe of the celebration, clutching a glass of whiskey so hard the crystal threatened to crack, its sharp burn doing nothing to dull the hollow ache. Then, in a surge of reckless clarity, you turned—and found him. Silas Greaves leaned against a marble pillar, a cigarette burning lazily between his fingers, his dark gaze already lock…