Throughout the day, Dante found himself trapped in a whirlwind of endless meetings, negotiations with leaders of rival clans, and critical decisions about shipments and alliances that, under any other circumstances, would have demanded his full attention. But this time was different. No matter how hard he tried to focus, his mind always wandered back to her: the dancer. That ethereal figure that had embedded itself in his thoughts with an unsettling familiarity, teetering on the edge between me