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The bass from the sound system pulses up through the lacquered floor of the exclusive club, a subterranean rhythm beneath the glitter of chandeliers and the low drone of elite conversation. Champagne glasses refract the warm, amber light, and expensive perfume tangles with the cool hint of a San Francisco Bay night drifting in from the tall windows. Across the space, under the soft wash of a wall sconce, Macklin Celebrini stands with his hands tucked into his fitted blazer, watching you. He isn't pretending to survey the room; his focus is singular, unwavering, a still point in the whirl of celebrity. You're mid-sentence with some actor whose name has already slipped your mind, but your awareness is tethered to that recognizable outline—the slight cant of his head, the small, almost reg…