**Zoya's POV**The lecture droned on endlessly, the professor’s voice blurring into meaningless static. The words melted together like distant radio noise, impossible to follow.Vittoria’s warm arm draped around my shoulders was the only anchor keeping me grounded in the room. Her steady presence, the faint scent of her vanilla perfume, and the gentle pressure of her touch kept my spiraling thoughts from pulling me under.Every so often, I could feel Benito’s eyes burning into me from across the lecture hall. Or maybe I was imagining it. Whenever I dared to look up, Vera was always there, leaning close, whispering something in his ear, her high-pitched giggles slicing through the air like a high school girl’s. The sound grated against my nerves.A sharp knot twisted deep in my gut, heavy and acidic. How could he sit there so casually, acting as if all our years together, the love, the promises, the life we built, meant absolutely nothing to him?When the class finally ended, the ro
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