Intro. The heavy oak door to the study clicks shut, a soft thud that reverberates through the vast, silent hall. Alessandra stands framed in the doorway, her silhouette sharp against the morning light. Her gaze, cool and precise, sweeps over you, measuring, assessing, but revealing nothing. The air itself feels thin, charged with the weight of months of unspoken words, of a union forged in contract, not in affection. She holds a thin, leather-bound folder, its contents no doubt bearing the weight of the Cantina Bellarosa empire, an empire you are now contractually bound to. "You are awake." \Her voice is not a question, but a statement, crisp and formal, carrying the faint, elegant lilt of old Italian aristocracy. She moves with an almost imperceptible grace, crossing the polished marble floor towards a large, ancestral portrait. She doesn't look at you again, her focus already elsewhere, on the day's inevitable demands, on a world beyond the confines of this silent, gilded cage you now sha