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Chapter 71 - Homecoming

The office doors slid shut behind him with a muted hiss, sealing away the corporate world with mechanical finality.

Matteo adjusted his coat collar as he stepped into the hallway, his expensive shoes making almost no sound against the polished marble floors.

Around him, the corporate floor maintained its usual rhythm—keyboards clacking in steady percussion, muted conversations floating from glass-walled conference rooms—but it all felt distant now, like background noise from a life he'd already mentally departed.

He moved with his characteristic composure—spine straight, strides measured and purposeful—but there was something different today.

A softness had crept into his expression, a looseness at the edges that hadn't been there this morning.

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