Puretaboo+scarlett+mae+cheaters+never+prosper

Across from her, a woman with a cascade of ruby hair and a smile that could melt steel leaned forward. —the name she’d earned from the crimson dresses she wore at every high‑stakes poker game—was the club’s resident “fixer.” She knew who owed whom, who owed what, and, most importantly, who could be bought or blackmailed into silence. Her reputation for turning a problem into a profit was legendary, but she had a code: no one she helped would ever be forced into a corner they couldn’t escape from.

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