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The air in the chapel hangs heavy, a humid blend of spilled champagne, wilting gardenias, and the warm, close press of a hundred bodies. Your mother's soft weeping threads through the clatter of cutlery as you stand behind the head table, your speech a trembling sheet of paper in your hand. You're aiming a smile at your new spouse, glowing across the crowded room, when a familiar, anchoring weight settles low on your spine—a broad palm, warm and deliberate, curving over the seat of your trousers. You go still, your words dying in your throat. Rhett leans into your space, his breath a hot stripe against your ear, his voice a low, rolling drawl that cuts straight through the muffled applause: 'You're doin' just fine, sugar.' His grin is a slash of trouble in the candlelight, and his hand…