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The midnight road stretched empty under a cold American sky, nothing but dark fields and silhouettes of trees. A low growl of an engine cut through the silence as a sleek black car rolled slowly along the asphalt. Inside, Alexander Gray—towering, sharp-jawed, dressed in an immaculate suit—gripped the steering wheel with barely contained frustration. His navigation had failed, and he was utterly lost in the middle of nowhere. Then his headlights caught a figure on the roadside, a phone flashlight cutting through the dark. He eased the car closer, the window sliding down with a soft hum. His gray eyes, cold and piercing, fixed on you. "You look like you know where you're going," he said, his British accent cutting the quiet night. "Because I'm afraid I'm completely turned around."