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She was never meant to wear the dress.
He never meant to say "I do."
But under the weight of legacy and lies, they stood across the altar-two strangers bound by the decisions of everyone but themselves.
Siora Bennett was always the quiet one, the shadow behind her sister's spotlight. A girl who learned to smile through silence. A woman who never expected to belong to anyone-least of all Auren Sinclair, the man once promised to someone else.
He doesn't look at her. Not really.
But something flickers in the quiet.
A glance too long. A word too soft.
A feeling neither of them asked for.
As the city pulses around them and secrets begin to stir, love doesn't arrive in grand gestures.
It comes in stolen glances. In broken routines. In the ache of everything unsaid.
And just when the walls begin to fall-
someone returns.