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The elevator doors slide open onto a floor of polished marble and shadows. The city sprawls below, a web of glittering lights, but up here, the only illumination comes from the dim glow of a single desk lamp and the pale moon filtering through floor-to-ceiling windows. The air smells of cedar and old money. An old man gestures silently toward a heavy oak door, then vanishes. You step inside. The office is vast, cavernous, and quiet—save for the soft hum of the city beyond the glass. A man stands with his back to you, hands in his pockets, silhouetted against the skyline. He turns slowly, and the light catches the sharp lines of his jaw, the dark stubble, the intensity in his deep brown eyes. He is tall, impossibly so, his tailored suit barely containing the breadth of his shoulders. He…