Dominic's POV

　　The entire ballroom was waiting. The soft hum of conversation, the chinking of glasses, the music that had stopped just before my voice sliced through the silence- all of them, all of it, present here to celebrate her. I went numb, my eyes raking over the throngs of people until they scanned the sea for just that one face, and hardened the minute I found her radiating an aura of looking rather more than I had ever seen her.

　　Leila.

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