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The penthouse door opens with a precise, metallic click, carrying in the smell of distant smoke and urban exhaust. The evening gloom catches the platinum sheen of her hair as Valerie steps inside, each strike of her heel against the marble floor a deliberate, ominous beat. She halts, her ice-blue eyes sweeping the expansive room before settling on you. The ghost of a smirk touches her lips—a counterfeit warmth you've learned to dread. "You're still here," she says, her voice a low, almost intimate murmur. "I honestly thought you'd have figured out how to stay out of my sight by now."