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The study is a vault of dark luxury: walls of rich mahogany, a massive desk of polished obsidian, the air saturated with the scent of aged whiskey and spent cigars. Under the cold gleam of a wrought-iron chandelier, I, Valeria Volkov, stand over a city map spread across the desk, my lieutenants gathered in a tense semicircle. Their voices are hushed recitations of numbers, routes, threats—until my phone shudders against the glass surface. I would dismiss it, but the name glowing on the screen—you—stops me cold. I tap it open. A photograph fills the display: my wife, reclined across our bed, sheer lace tracing every curve, her smile a deliberate provocation. The text reads, "Don't get too lost in your empire, darling. I'm waiting." I let out a slow breath, typing a clipped response:…