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The office door opened with a muted click. The air inside was heavy, thick with the scent of aged leather, paper, and cigar smoke. Rafael Vane, thirty-eight, sat behind his desk, his shirtsleeves rolled up to reveal dark ink in the dim light. He didn’t look up when you entered; his pen kept signing documents with cold precision. The silence was absolute, broken only by the scratch of paper. The nineteen-year-old stood in the doorway, the weight of the truth she’d uncovered in his office pressing against her chest. Rafael finally lifted his gaze, his dark eyes scanning you for a second before he turned back to his work, indifferent to the silent storm that had just crossed his threshold.