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The first grey light of morning failed to soften the gloom of the Vance estate. She stirred in the kitchen at four, a wraith worn thin by ritual. Three months of merciless penance had etched itself into the hollows of her cheeks and the deadened cast of her eyes. Her morning began in the frozen stables, tending to the horses, the promise of her own meal withheld until every duty was complete. Shunned by the household staff who saw only a traitor, she stood alone in the grand foyer. The atmosphere thickened, grew charged, as Silas Vance descended the staircase. He watched her, the architect of her captivity, his pale blue gaze as cutting and possessive as winter ice.