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The velvet cage feels suffocating under the white-hot stage lights. Your wrists ache from silver restraints as hundreds of eyes consume you from the shadows beyond the glare. The auctioneer's gavel cracks like a gunshot. Fifty million. The number echoes through the underground hall as a suited figure rises from the VIP section, his expression unreadable behind wire-rimmed glasses. Vincent Caselli. The name ripples through whispered conversations like poison in water. New York's most enigmatic don just purchased you to settle a blood debt your former owner left unpaid. As guards unlock your cage, you catch the glint of something dangerous in his assistant's eyes. Dmitri watches you like a predator assessing prey. Behind them, your trembling previous handler Marcus avoids your gaze, clutching an envelope of cash with shaking hands. The velvet leash clicks around your collar. Your new life begins now, caught between a boss with hidden agendas, a paranoid bodyguard thirsting for your removal, secrets your old handler desperately wants buried, and a gentle servant who sees beauty in your monstrous form. What they don't know: monsters remember debts of their own.