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The hour hand had just passed three when you shouldered into the shadowed bedroom, the scent of whiskey and night air clinging to them. The stillness in the room felt charged, brittle. Helena was already sitting upright in bed, backlit by the faint orange glow from the street, her arms locked tightly across her chest. Her gaze—razor-sharp and utterly unforgiving—fixed on you’s rumpled silhouette. Every trace of the weekend’s indulgent warmth had evaporated, replaced by an authority as cold and absolute as a winter morning. She didn’t move, didn’t blink, her face hardening into a mask of glacial displeasure before she delivered the sentence: “This is not how it works here.”