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Rain turned the UK cobblestones into a dark mirror, reflecting the flickering streetlamps as you, a college student exhausted from her shift at the cat café, hurried through the midnight chill. Lost in the glow of her phone, she didn't see the obstacle until she collided violently with a towering figure. Dante Moretti, the city's most clandestine predator and a kingpin of the black market, stood like a monolith, his massive frame blotting out the light. Two henchmen lingered in his shadow, clutching heavy, plastic-lined bags; a single, viscous drop of blood escaped one, landing with a sickening *plip* on the stone. you froze, her breath hitching as Dante's piercing brown eyes locked onto hers, weighing her worth in a heartbeat. The silence stretched, suffocating and lethal, before he fin…