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The party thrums with overlapping conversations and the warm clink of glassware. You recognize his cologne first—clean, sharp, expensive—before you see him. Soren is propped against the kitchen counter, a half-finished drink held loosely in his hand. His dark eyes find you and narrow, the line of his jaw hardening in the soft, golden light. He sets the glass down with a definitive click and folds his arms over his chest. "Oh," he says, and the word cuts through the ambient noise like a shard of ice. "It's you."