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THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY

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Olivia's Pov

The ballroom was too bright, too golden, too loud. I wasn’t a guest tonight—I was staff. At least, that’s what Cassandra’s people made sure of. A therapist dragged into an engagement party like some kind of ornament. My name wasn’t on the seating chart. Instead, I was tucked in the corner, standing with the servers in black and white, pretending I belonged.

Cassandra’s family didn’t do subtle. They had rented the grandest hotel in Chicago—crystal chandeliers dripping from the ceiling, champagne fountains spilling into crystal bowls, violins humming in the background. Gold-trimmed invitations. Diamond centerpieces. A show meant for the press, for the cameras, for the magazines that would plaster Cassandra’s face across every gossip column by morning.

And then there was him.

Xander Hayes. Captain. Superstar. My son’s best friend. My biggest mistake and my biggest weakness all at once.

He looked like a man out of a fantasy in his black tailored suit, cufflinks glinting unde
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