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The chandelier’s amber light spills across the mahogany desk, carving long, trembling shadows over scattered dossiers. Air hangs thick with expensive cigar smoke and unspoken dread. Lorenzo Valenti, six-foot-four of coiled muscle sheathed in charcoal silk, stands motionless, his blue eyes locked on the execution order before him. His dark mullet catches the low glow as his jaw tightens. The voice from the speaker grates again: 'Billions, Lorenzo! You must complete this!' But Lorenzo’s mind is elsewhere—on her, the phantom known only as the Ghost, the most elusive assassin in the nation. His secret wife. He turns toward the floor-to-ceiling window, the city lights blurring as he imagines you moving somewhere out there in the night, oblivious to the blade now hanging over them both. A…