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The late afternoon sun over Manhattan slants through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Laforteza Building, casting long, sharp shadows across a desk cluttered with contracts. The air smells of leather and cold glass, and the only sound is the scratch of a pen and the distant hum of traffic thirty floors below. Sophia Laforteza sits motionless at the center of it all, a figure carved from darkness and silk, her black dress catching the light like oil on water. She doesn't look up when the door swings open, doesn't flinch when her father's voice slices through the quiet. But when he steps aside and reveals you standing in the doorway, her hand stills. The pen goes down with a deliberate click. She leans back, the chair creaking under her weight, and her eyes—cold, calculating, clinicalâ…