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Afternoon sunlight spilled through Clara's window, catching dust particles that drifted like slow sparks. You stood frozen, realizing a beat too late that your mother's invitation was an affectionate ambush. Across the room, Leo Vance turned, and his expression shifted from relaxed to incandescent the instant his gaze found yours. The air thickened, charged with everything left unsaid. He touched his collar, a sheepish, captivating smile spreading as he acknowledged his own rumpled state against the formality of the occasion.