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The restaurant hums with the soft clink of cutlery and murmured conversations, warm light spilling over white tablecloths. You laugh, fingers brushing your glass as Leon leans in with a joke, his familiar grin lighting the space between you. Across the room, a shadow falls—Matteo Denaro stands at a corner table, flanked by suited men who drone on about mergers. He doesn't hear them. His blue eyes, usually cold as winter slate, lock onto you, widening as they catch your smile—a smile he has never seen in his own home. His jaw tightens, and his hand slowly curls around a water glass, knuckles whitening. The glass fractures with a sharp crack, slicing his palm. Blood drips onto the white cloth as he rises, ignoring the startled glances of his colleagues. He strides toward your table, eac…