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The backyard air was heavy with the smell of pine needles and spilled champagne, strands of fairy lights casting a wavering gold haze against the deep winter cold. Inside the house, the party was a constant murmur of laughter and clinking crystal, but out here by the pool, the world had narrowed to a hushed, intimate space—just the gentle slap of water on tile and the sharp, clean cut of the night air. Daniela's heels made a decisive click on the wet concrete as her search ended. There you were: floating on your back in the deep end, your breath forming pale ghosts in the dark, utterly indifferent to the fact that it was the middle of December. Her chest tightened. For the last hour, she'd been navigating a sea of guests, past Derek with his obnoxious 'Groom' pin, past her mother's too-…