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was funny. Not the wedding planner wringing her hands, not the trembling assistant who look

her voice cracking like glass under p

handelier dripping with gold, the flashes of cameras waiting outside.

many things, vain, spoiled, manipulative, but she was not s

's eyes told

dressing room, not anywhere." Clara

r, it was the sharp crack of my father's voice echoing in memory. "A Kn

humiliation pressing down. This wedding wasn't just about marriage. It was a merger, it was the boar

room, the flowers, the whispers were all suffocating. The walls clos

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es clinked, strangers laughed, music pulsed through

key.

fraction of a second, before he nodded. The

So did the second. By the third, the

ng the narrative, and calling the press. Find Celes

e smirk on my father's

urred into a haze of gold and red. Laughter spilled from t

a door and found mys

to

glittered even under the cheap lights, and a posture that screamed both defiance and exhaustion. He wasn't in a

arked, glaring at the cou

utched the arm of her equally terri

gh his hair. "You don't love each other. You don't even know

e man sighed, muttering under his breath

e the whiskey, maybe the

p his head toward me.

hell is

ng. "You, lecturing them about mista

shot up. "

my tongue like venom. "It's just contracts wrapped in flowers. A

iest looked scandalized. But the man, the strang

ieve in love,"

"The most expensive

into something between disbel

the pew, swaying slightly

rise, he laughed, not a polite chuckle, not a cruel

drunk,"

u're me

ing to s

ant to escape." I tilted my hea

iest muttering excuses as he followed. Now it was just us. Two s

You think you know ev

enough,"

ove

hallenge, dare, cut thro

ow

rry

e air, ridiculous, i

curved.

ed. "Wai

ng a mistake," I said, stepping cl

re in

f you think you can stand here and lecture me

o walk away. Instead, his eyes flicked to my hand. H

act moment, blinking at us. "You

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aid at the

nd twitched in mine. His lips p

ispered, almos

hel