"My chest is vibrating."
The lead model clutched her shattered glass dress. She looked at Isabella Rossi with wide eyes.
The backstage area was a tomb of exhaustion ten seconds ago. The models had been standing in heavy garments for four agonizing hours. Corporate sabotage had drained their final reserves of mental energy. They were preparing to march into a humiliating silence.
A heavy electronic bass chord changed the atmosphere instantly.
Up on the suspended platform, Ryan Parker ignored the thousands of elite guests. He looked down through the transparent acrylic floor at the dark staging area. A brilliant golden interface materialized in his vision.
[System Module Unlocked: Acoustic Adrenaline Synchronization.]
The golden System scanned the biological data of the thirty models w
