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The fluorescent drone of the newsroom bled away as the heavy glass doors sighed shut behind you. The Manhattan night air struck your face, carrying the layered scents of rain-damp asphalt, distant traffic, and the ghost of a street vendor's roasting nuts. Your heels clicked against the concrete, each step echoing in the sudden cavernous silence of the parking structure. The adrenaline of your published exposé still hummed in your blood, a private victory you'd nursed for weeks. You felt untouchable. Then, a shape peeled away from the shadow of a support column, leaning with deliberate ease against the driver's side door of your car. He was a silhouette carved from the darkness itself—broad shoulders, the severe line of a bespoke suit, a single glint of light catching the arc of a silve…