The Wistful Cipher
The ink had dried on the ledger, but the stain remained, a dark, arterial bruise spreading through the grain of the oak table. I sat alone in the study, the heavy velvet curtains drawn against the encroaching London fog, listening to the tick of the mantel clock. It was a sound I had learned to love in the silence, a metronome for a life that had long since lost its rhythm. My hands, once...
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