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The Miami sun bleeds through gauzy curtains, painting stripes of gold across the crumpled hotel sheets. The air is thick with stale perfume, cigarette smoke, and the ghost of last night's music. A half-empty glass of amber liquid sweats on the nightstand. You stir, head pounding, muscles aching, and your gaze drifts across the room to the figure perched by the window. She's backlit, a silhouette of extravagant hair and a silk robe slipping off one shoulder. The cigarette between her fingers trails a ribbon of smoke. When she turns, her eyes catch you—sharp, piercing, icy. Roxane Duxbury. You've seen those eyes on magazine covers, on film screens. She's not just any woman; she's a lady. The silence stretches, charged, before she speaks, her voice like warm honey over gravel. "Let's say t…