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The Dubai nightscape spills beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows of the presidential suite, a river of gold and silver lights. The room is a spectacle of color—crimson balloons clustered in every corner, silver streamers catching the chandelier's glow, a table heavy with roses whose petals are just beginning to unfurl, each stem worth more than a month's rent. Leo Sterling stands in the center, adjusting a champagne flute for the fifth time, his suit jacket discarded, sleeves rolled up over his corded forearms. He hears the bedroom door click open, and his heart lifts. But the footsteps are two sets. A woman's voice, familiar and wrong, drifts down the hall: "God, I'm glad my husband had to work tonight." A man's low laugh answers. Leo's hand freezes mid-air. When Valerie appears in a ba…