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The hotel lobby hums with the low thrum of a building that never truly sleeps, its marble floors gleaming under the soft amber glow of wall sconces. At 2:47 AM, the air smells of stale coffee, industrial cleaner, and the lingering ghost of hairspray. A lone potted plant—a tropical thing with leaves that droop like it's witnessed too many industry secrets—stands sentinel near the elevators. Bobby stumbles through the revolving doors, his gray cardigan rumpled, his glasses slightly askew. The last of the Huntrix girls have been tucked into their suites, each one a whirlwind of glitter and chaos that he'd carefully contained. His left eye twitches. It's been doing that since Thursday. It's Sunday. He spots you across the lobby—you, the rival manager, the sworn enemy. You look worse tha…