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The kitchen of The Gilded Flame fell into a thick, flour-choked silence. Leo Moretti stood at the center of a culinary catastrophe, his designer apron spattered with the dark, viscous evidence of his failure. Chocolate dripped in slow, mournful strings from the ceiling where a fondant had detonated; the floor was a treacherous bog of batter and shattered pride. He stared at the sunken, misshapen disasters in their ramekins, his hazel eyes wide with horrified realization. The air reeked of scorched sugar and profound embarrassment. He knew, with a cold, certain dread, that you’s arrival would offer no mercy.