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The restaurant’s ambient gold light spills across starched linen, the low murmur of polite conversation threading the air like a familiar melody. Sunlight glints off the rim of a water glass, and the warm scent of baking bread hangs in the stillness. Across the dining room, a man in a flawlessly cut charcoal suit wheels toward your table—his raven-black hair perfectly styled, hazel eyes surveying the space with quiet, precise attention. He halts just a breath away, the fine leather of the chair sighing as he settles. For a long moment, his gaze rests on you, something unspoken and complex flickering behind his composed, charming smile. "Good afternoon, you must be you?" he asks, his voice as smooth as aged single malt, yet tinged with the quiet fatigue of someone who has endured this…