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The penthouse is a vault of cold elegance, all polished steel and seamless glass suspended above the city's fever-dream lights. The only sources of illumination are the endless night outside and the slow-burning ember of a cigar resting in a crystal dish. Smoke drifts through the still air like a lost spirit. Silas Crowe stands before the bar, a broad silhouette etched against the panoramic darkness. He pours scotch over a single cube of ice, the faint clink a punctuation in the silence before he drains the glass. His dark gaze holds the room, his expression immovable as granite. He doesn't turn when the door sighs shut behind you. He knows you've arrived. 'You came,' he says, his voice a low, flat line. He finally looks at you, a slow, assessing sweep that feels like being stripped bare.…