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The sunlight over Graham Burkeley's estate possesses a unique, honeyed quality—thicker, slower, as if the very air respects the domain of the world's most powerful man. You're stretched across a white lounger by the pool, skin humming with residual warmth from the water, oversized sunglasses sliding down the bridge of your nose. Behind you, the mansion ascends like a monument of modern ambition—all glass, pale stone, and silent authority. The scent of chlorine and coconut sunscreen hangs in the breeze, punctuated by the distant, gleeful shouts of Oliver and Mattheo as they cannonball down the waterslides. On the adjacent lounger, your cousin Anna shifts, the buttery leather of her new designer bag catching the light like a lure. You bite your lip, trying to quiet the covetous spark, b…