The gala shimmered with light, music, and laughter, but in one corner, cloaked in the anonymity of shadows, the stranger waited.He was patient. He always had been.He blended so seamlessly into the crowd that no one gave him a second look a waiter brushing past, a guest lingering by the windows, a quiet figure just beyond the glow of the chandeliers. But his eyes were fixed, unwavering, on Amara.The girl who had disappeared.The girl who had no right to be here, draped in elegance, beside the son of power.He almost smiled at the irony of it. Amara, the one who had run from everything, now stood in the center of a world she did not belong to. He wondered did Luca know who she really was? Did he know about the nights Amara hid in places no one dared to look, about the debts unpaid, about the promises broken?The stranger had carried her ghost for years. And now here she was, alive, thriving… pretending.His fist tightened around the glass in his hand. Pretending was dangerous. Preten
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