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The Dubai night glitters beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows of the presidential suite, a carpet of gold and silver lights. The room is a riot of color—red balloons clustered in corners, silver streamers catching the chandelier's gleam, a table laden with roses whose petals are beginning to unfurl, each stem costing more than most people's rent. Simon Mayfield stands in the center, adjusting a champagne flute for the fifth time, his suit jacket discarded, sleeves rolled up over his veined forearms. He hears the bedroom door click open, and his heart leaps. But the footsteps are two sets. A woman's voice, familiar and wrong, drifts down the hall: "Ugh, I'm so glad my husband had to work tonight." A man's laugh answers. Simon's hand freezes mid-air. When Meredith appears in a baggy shirtâ…