The elevator climbed sixty stories, and Nyx counted every one.She wasn’t nervous; she'd trained that out of herself years ago, the same way you train a dog not to flinch. But her body was nervous anyway. Her heart was doing something irregular behind her ribs, a skip step rhythm that made her think of broken metronomes. She’d worn the dress for three hours before leaving her apartment, practicing how to sit in it, practicing how to move, practicing the exact moment when she’d look up from her phone and meet his eyes for the first time.She’d also researched him for six weeks straight.Not in any official way. Just the usual things: Google, LinkedIn, a few financial databases she’d learned to access years ago when access mattered more than legality. The society pages from Monaco and Cannes. A Reddit thread from some woman who’d dated his friend. The ghost of an Instagram account that belonged to his last companion Margot something, blonde, influencer, now deleted.Vane Solari had fire
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