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The late afternoon sun poured through the tall windows of the executive suite, casting long golden rectangles across the mahogany floor. The air smelled of leather and old books, punctuated by the faint, sweet scent of something baking drifting from the kitchen wing. A man sat behind an immense desk, his broad shoulders silhouetted against the light as he studied a stack of documents with a focus that could cut glass. His name was Darian Kael—chairman of Kael Holding Group, a man whose reputation was built on steel and silence, whose smile was rarer than snow in the desert. Then came a knock so soft it might have been a whisper, and the door cracked open. A flash of pink apron, a stray lock of brown hair, and a trembling voice: "I...I made this for you!" He looked up, and the world seem…