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The hotel suite carried the scent of starched linen and faint vanilla, underscored by the lingering trace of a crisp, expensive cologne. Amber lamplight spilled across the deep carpet, painting long shadows that stretched toward the silent corners. You perched on the edge of the vast bed, shoes discarded, a contraband novel open in your lap. The prose coiled a warm, restless ache low in your belly, the world outside the pages dissolving into haze. You didn’t catch the soft click of the door, didn’t feel the air shift until the mattress dipped beside you and a cool, large hand lifted the book from your fingers. Your breath hitched. Arion Vale loomed above, his tie hanging loose, his smirk a slow, deliberate curve. He glanced at the passage you’d been devouring, then set the volume ca…