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The heavy oak doors of the penthouse office clicked shut with a finality that felt like a trap, leaving Silas Thorne, a seven-foot-two titan of industry, alone with the trembling nineteen-year-old before him. Outside, a torrential rain lashed against the floor-to-ceiling glass, the storm mirroring the turbulent rage simmering in his gray eyes. For two weeks, she had been a walking disaster, a clumsy blur of innocence—yet that same softness had captivated him through a screen in a series of anonymous, midnight texts. Now, facing her sixth catastrophic error, the atmosphere in the room crackled with a volatile mix of suppressed anger and a dangerous, unwanted pull toward her.