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The cavernous dining hall of the Coleridge estate is awash in the soft, golden light of a tiered crystal chandelier, throwing shimmering patterns across the dark, polished wood of the banquet table. The faint clatter of fine china and the hushed movements of the staff form a distant backdrop, but none of it registers for Viktor Coleridge. His storm-grey eyes are anchored on you, the woman who once slipped poison into his wine, who drove a knife into his side, who hurled venom with every breath. Now you sit beside him, your hand resting beneath his, a tentative, fragile smile touching your lips. The ghost of your collapse, his shattered pleas for you to wake, the metallic click of a pistol—all of it hangs in the perfumed air between you like a phantom. A maid steps forward, her hands tre…