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The ballroom of the Plaza Hotel was a suffocating sea of crystal chandeliers, champagne flutes, and predatory smiles.Every billionaire, politician, and high-society socialite in Manhattan had squeezed through the grand entrance tonight, dressed in their finest velvet and diamonds. But beneath the polite laughter and the hum of string quartets, the air was thick with tension. Everyone knew about the chaos of the past forty-eight hours—the corporate warfare, the restaurant attack, the leaked Zurich marriage certificate, and the sudden, unyielding mobilization of Sterling Enterprises.At the center of the grand staircase stood Alexander and me.I wore the midnight-blue silk velvet couture gown from the night before, its sweeping train pooling behind me like dark water, perfectly matched by the blazing ten-carat emerald-cut diamond on my left hand. Alexander stood beside me in a bespoke midnight-black tuxedo, his broad shoulders squared, his ice-blue eyes sweeping over the crowded room w

The torrential spray from the smart-sprinkler system drummed a deafening rhythm against the hardwood floors of the master study. Smoke, water, and burning ash filled the air as the indoor fireplace sizzled, neutralizing the dying embers into a thick, gray haze.I stood paralyzed near the heavy mahogany desk, water dripping from the hem of my midnight-blue silk gown, my breath coming in ragged, shallow gasps. Marcus lay unconscious against the charred hearth, handcuffed with Alexander’s tactical zip-ties.Alexander stood over him, breathing heavily, his white dress shirt soaked and plastered against his broad chest. The dark, lethal aura radiating from him was enough to freeze the water dripping from the ceiling."Sir! Perimeter breach!" Chief Marcus's secure comm-unit clipped to the traitorous guard's belt crackled to life with a frantic, distorted voice. "All units, Vance Tactical has initiated a secondary wave! They’re breaching the western courtyard! Execute code black!"Alexander’