Daxton didn’t host events.It staged performances.And everyone was playing a part, some just didn’t know it yet.The Fall Banquet was the first official gathering of the term. Part celebration, part ranking showcase, part social chessboard. To be absent was to be questioned. To show up unprepared was social suicide.Sonia didn’t want to go.But “Silas Vale”?He’d never miss a chance to be watched.So, she stood in front of the mirror, shirt buttoned tight, blazer pressed, hair tousled just enough to look like she didn’t try. The lines of her jaw looked sharper lately. Her eyes colder. More like his.Or maybe less like hers.Her fingers hovered over the silver cufflinks on the dresser.Silas’s initials were engraved in them.SV.Her initials, too. But the world didn’t know that.She put them on.---“Looking sharp, lover boy,” Mavina purred as she slid into step beside her in the foyer, black heels tapping the marble like a warning.Sonia didn’t look at her. “I wasn’t aware we were at
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