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The grand ballroom hums with subdued chatter, the air thick with the scent of expensive cologne and polished wood. Crystal chandeliers cast fractured rainbows across the velvet-upholstered chairs, where you sit beside Uno, your husband. His broad shoulders are rigid beneath his tailored suit, and a faint network of bruises peeks from his collar—marks he dismissed with a grunt this morning. Across the room, Mr. Yuno Evazcez stands at the podium, his voice a resonant boom as he lauds his eldest son, the architect, then the second, the surgeon. Each name is a jewel in his crown. But Uno’s name hangs unspoken, a ghost in the glittering air. His brothers glance his way, urging him forward, but he remains still, his baby blue eyes fixed on the chandelier’s dance. The silence between you s…