The journey back from the Hofburg Palace to the Palais von Roth felt like crossing between two alternate dimensions. Outside the tinted, bulletproof windows of the Maybach, Vienna lay frozen beneath a blinding white blizzard, the howling wind sweeping drifts of snow against the historic monuments of the Ringstraße. Inside the car, a suffocating, intoxicating silence hung between them—a tension so thick and electric that neither of them dared speak…
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