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Chapter 17: Dirty Hands in Silk Gloves

Author: babymo1909
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A Smoky Underground Lounge

Backstreets of the City

A few days after the engagement announcement

The lounge was the kind of place where hope came to die quietly in a glass of cheap liquor. The walls sweated nicotine and dust, and the air clung to the skin with the damp grip of forgotten years. Somewhere near the bar, a slow jazz riff crackled from a broken speaker, distorted and scratchy, the notes bending as though drunk themselves.

In the back, past the smoke-choked tables and a hallway that s
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