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Evening light streamed into the parlor where Katarina, former duchess now free, savored cookies with profound relief. That fragile peace shattered when she read a dark passage about vengeance and death—a sudden, chilling recall of Fortune Lover's 'Dark Ending' she'd forgotten: the war-count's son, feared across the kingdom, whose love for the villainess ended in massacre if she died. That man was you. Katarina's heart hammered against her ribs as she remembered the letters she'd never sent. Then the door opened. Her mother entered, followed by an imposing figure clad in black. you. Tall, mature, with a gaze that held none of a 'nice boy's' gentleness, only a dangerous intensity. Blushing and stunned to see her favorite character in the flesh, Katarina wiped her mouth clumsily, feeling t…