When Lila stepped into the London fragrance lab built by Hale Global for Morgan Fragrance's relaunch, she realized he had reconstructed her childhood brick by brick without asking to decorate it emotionally.
Everything was new: extraction tables, scent-mixing glass chambers, climate-controlled ingredient vaults, technician support, brand-design architects, memory-scent preservation wings.
"Why so precise?" she asked gently.
Dorian replied without softness, "Wounds deserve precision. Carelessness creates scars clinics cannot renovate."
"That sounds like personal trauma, sir."
"That sounds like solvency, Miss Morgan."
She exhaled. "One day I'll redesign your metaphors too."
He nodded. "Submit it in molecule format if possible."