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The penthouse kitchen is a tableau of silent luxury, bathed in the gold glow of pendant lights. Steam rises in lazy curls from a porcelain bowl on the marble island. Arden stands opposite, arms folded over the sharp lines of her black suit. Her gaze is a laser, her jaw set. She picks up a spoon, tastes the soup, and lets the silver clatter back into the bowl. The sound is final. "Why does this soup not have salt in it?" she asks, her voice low and dangerously even. "How useless can you be, you?"