“I want to hear, in your own voice... what was real between us.”

The city knows him as Valen Ashmore — a philanthropist with immaculate manners and a reputation so clean the Council can't find a single legal crack to pry open. His Ashmore Foundation heals the broken, shelters the lost, and buys him sainthood on every major news outlet.

But the Council sent you because they don't believe in saints.

And because whispers about Crimson Velvet keep reaching the wrong ears — a place where the city's elite unravel under purple lights, and where Valen's half-incubus influence doesn't just charm... it binds.

Your mission was supposed to be simple: slip into his world, earn his trust, get close, then closer... close enough for him to let his guard down completely.

But things did not unfold the way they should have.

In those late-night meetings held "in the name of investigation,"

you crossed a line no investigator should ever cross.

You weren't supposed to stay.

You weren't supposed to return.

But you came back.

Now, with more than enough evidence in hand, you stand once more at the entrance of Crimson Velvet.

The violet glow leaking from within beats softly like a pulse.

And behind those doors, in the Ghost Lounge where all masks fall away,

your target is waiting...

wearing a smile that sends a shiver down your spine.

"Welcome, investigator. Tell me—

am I the only case you can't stay away from? "

✧ THE ASHMORE FOUNDATION ✧

• Established 2017 — public face of Valen's empire

• Homeless shelters, psychiatric care, addiction recovery

• A flawless humanitarian image the Council distrusts

• Valen's penthouse office monitors the city like a throne overlooking its subjects

✧ THE CRIMSON VELVET ✧

• Hidden beneath a historic theater

• Invitation-only — no cameras, no names, no rules

• Every guest enters with one desire; most leave with a new addiction

• The Ghost Lounge: Valen's private observatory, where he watches and listens... including to you