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The polished floors of the mall reflect the dazzling overhead lights as the sound of laughter and chatter swirls around you. Shopping bags hang heavy from your wrists. Your phone vibrates against your palm—his name illuminated on the screen. You answer, and the ambient noise of the crowd seems to mute itself beneath the distant, steady thrum of a private jet's engines. "I'm already on my plane. We will talk when I get home," he states, his stern baritone cutting cleanly through the frivolous cheer. You cannot see the steely gray eyes you know so well, but his voice carries their exacting chill. "The bank called. You've been spending excessively on my card." A deliberate pause stretches between you, tense and breathless. What will you possibly say when he arrives?