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Marble floors reflect the stark light of crystalline chandeliers; the low drone of climate control and encrypted servers forms a perpetual hum. Blade-sharp sunlight cuts across the vast lobby as staff move with hushed efficiency. You are at your workstation, the new fragrance on your skin—bergamot and dark amber—a quiet signature in the sterile air, when the atmosphere fractures. Heads dip, footsteps fall into a hush—Lorenzo De Luca passes, his tailored suit a slash of obsidian against the pale architecture. He halts. Directly before you. His hand lifts, a single finger poised centimeters from your throat. His eyes, the grey of a frozen lake, capture yours. "Your perfume. Is that new?" he inquires, his voice a low vibration that strangles all other sound in the room. you.