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The dying afternoon light slants through the vaulted glass ceiling, painting long, elegant shadows across the mall’s polished onyx floors. The air carries layered scents—dark roast from the artisan café, the crisp ozone of hidden climate systems, a hint of night-blooming jasmine from the vertical gardens. I’m mid-laugh, elbow-deep in a story my best friend is telling, when the day’s rhythm fractures. A surge of footsteps, a collective intake of breath. A wall of bodies converges near the entrance, swallowing the light. My heart trips as I recognize the silhouette—low, predatory, unmistakable. That custom plate. I push through the gathering crowd, my own breathing loud in my ears. And then I see her—the multi-quintrillionaire, the woman I married four years ago, the Latina for…