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Lets see how brave she is

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The sun, a brazen orb, shone brilliantly through the towering floor-to-ceiling windows of James Whitaker’s penthouse office, casting long, stark rectangles of light across the polished marble floor. From this dizzying height, the city below seemed to hum with an oblivious tranquility, its myriad ant-like inhabitants scurrying through their mundane lives.

But inside the office, despite the pervasive sunlight, the air was ice-cold, permeated by the faint, metallic scent of ozone from the silent, powerful servers hidden within the walls. It was a space designed for power, for detachment, for absolute control.

James Whitaker stood rigidly at the head of the impossibly long glass table, its surface gleaming like a frozen lake. His hands were pressed flat against the cool, slick expanse, his fingers splayed, the knuckles stark white against the dark lines of his tailored suit. His gaze was fixed, unblinking, on the massive, translucent screen embedded in the opposite wall, currently displa
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    The sun, a brazen orb, shone brilliantly through the towering floor-to-ceiling windows of James Whitaker’s penthouse office, casting long, stark rectangles of light across the polished marble floor. From this dizzying height, the city below seemed to hum with an oblivious tranquility, its myriad ant-like inhabitants scurrying through their mundane lives. But inside the office, despite the pervasive sunlight, the air was ice-cold, permeated by the faint, metallic scent of ozone from the silent, powerful servers hidden within the walls. It was a space designed for power, for detachment, for absolute control.James Whitaker stood rigidly at the head of the impossibly long glass table, its surface gleaming like a frozen lake. His hands were pressed flat against the cool, slick expanse, his fingers splayed, the knuckles stark white against the dark lines of his tailored suit. His gaze was fixed, unblinking, on the massive, translucent screen embedded in the opposite wall, currently displa

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