Chapter 7

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The restaurant glowed in a hush of gold and shadow, the kind of quiet luxury where even the smallest sound seemed deliberate—the gentle clink of cutlery, the distant murmur of music, the soft tremor of candlelight flickering between them. It was a space designed for intimacy, for unspoken things to linger just beneath the surface.