The Scratch Marks & The Night Drive

By 1:00 AM, the massive luxury penthouse high above the city had settled into a heavy, suffocating quiet.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling wraparound glass windows, the

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  The morning rain had stopped, leaving the cobblestones outside Sparks Design Studio slick, dark, and gleaming under a bruised gray sky.Inside, the studio was freezing. The rear delivery door swung lazily on its hinges, the shattered brass lock hanging uselessly from the splintered wood frame like a broken jaw. A cold draft swept through the cutting floor, fluttering loose swatches of silk and sending a chill down Juliet’s spine that had nothing to do with the August weather.She stood in the middle of her back office, staring into the open, empty vault of the floor safe beneath her drafting desk.Her hands were shaking so violently she couldn't keep her fingers still. The velvet lining inside the iron safe was pristine, completely bare save for a thin layer of dust where her mother’s leather-bound master portfolio had rested only hours ago. Every s

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