In the oak-paneled library of the Bedford estate, the fire crackled in the stone hearth, casting long, dancing shadows across the leather armchairs and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Outside, sleet tapped relentlessly against the leaded glass windows. Luca sat at a round antique table, his laptop tethered to an encrypted quantum-resistant satellite uplink. On the screen, a scrambled video feed flickered to life, showing the silhouette of a middle-aged man sitting in…
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