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CHAPTER ONE
JAY LATIMER EXHALED in frustration for the hundredth odd ti incoherent even to herself, leaned her head on her taxi’sand forced her gaze to take in the vista zoo pavehway she’d seen in Damhoor so far
It didn’t work Not even the breathtaking sights of ineered beauty of parades of lush palms, immaculate lawns and explosions of flowers and the nature-endowedat the horizon could a to succumb to this abuse of power
Just what the hell did Da, ordering her to this interview? Making it sound as if they were profiling a foreigner of questionable nature and intentions? Why didn’t they just check her credentials and history and be done with it? If half the things she’d heard about their limitless reach and poere true, they probably had dossiers on her fro into this life They were reputed to have those on everyone who set foot on their land So why inconvenience as well as insult her by decreeing this interview?
And that was exactly what they’d done Decree it She’d received an honest to goodness su the time of said interview only two hours later, and on the far side of Halwan, Damhoor’s capital, when they et there They didn’t deem her worthy of even an offer of transportation
All that when she was here volunteering her services
She hadn’t drea like this would happen when her application two days ago to Global Aid Organization to join the e cohbors had been approved in two minutes flat She was GAO’s dreaencythem open-ended dedication
Then in had stepped the Ministry of the Interior, over GAO’s officials, decreeing it was they who’d decide if volunteers to thewere up to standard, conveniently forgetting that they’d begged for GAO’s presence in their region, counting on their experience and logistical clout in hudom’s endless money and resources hadn’t been able to
And here she was, scaate her as if she were a suspicious character, to decide if she, her skills and , over-privileged-from-birth standards!
She exhaled again, trying to bring her temperature under control
This would be over in no time, she tried to convince herself This was just a show Of bravado Looking a gift horse in theGAO that they didn’t really need such gift … Argh
Her rationalizations only rier Of all the imperious rubbish
But what did she expect of a land where every higher official belonged to the extensive royal family?
On every level, it see into a huge letdown She’d had nothing but difficulties and rejection since she’d set foot …
She slaainst the
The driver had made a sharp swerve Her heart zoomed into full panic h sidewalk, co halt