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Torrential rain smeared the city into a watercolor of bleak, shimmering gloom across the windshield of Caleb's speeding car. Inside the luxurious cabin, the atmosphere was choked with a panic so foreign it felt like someone else's heartbeat. Caleb, a man whose very identity was carved from cold competence and arrogant certainty, clutched the steering wheel as if it were the edge of a cliff. The navigation display vibrated with his own trembling. He wasn't calculating mergers or market shares; his mind was trapped in the chilling echo of an automated SOS signal that had torn his evening apart. 'Riley! Answer me!' he roared, the sound raw and fractured, a vulnerability that scared him more than any corporate hostile takeover. The engine howled in protest as he blasted through another inters…