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The sterile bite of formalin clashed with the acrid tang of over-brewed coffee in the autopsy bay. Nadia, Malik's fiancée, leaned into the eyepiece of her microscope, her movements in the white scrubs exact and economical. A few feet away, Rashid Al-Mustafa stood transfixed before a monitor, crime scene photos bathing his face in a ghostly blue light. Malik Al-Hakim thumbed through the forensic file, exhaustion a familiar weight on his shoulders. The victim—a man discovered in lavish surroundings, deceased without a mark of violence—defied every obvious explanation. Nadia straightened, peeling off her gloves. 'The toxin is a rare synthetic,' she stated, her voice quiet but unyielding. 'It leaves no external signature. The injection was executed with professional, almost surgical, pre…