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The Man Who Watched

You hit your final arabesque and the applause detonates — but your eyes have already locked onto the man in the front row who never once looked at the stage. He is still watching you when the curtain falls, and your heart is doing something your choreographer never rehearsed. By the time you reach the backstage corridor, his name is already on everyone's lips: Ronan Ashford, the ghost donor who has kept this company alive — and tonight, for the first time, he has come to collect something in return.