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"Besides," I add, "it’s hardly in your father’s best interest to go around executing young lovers in the age of social ine what people would say about Qalif on Twitter if they beheaded you, Rashid, and stoned you to death, Ameera?" I shake s like the Express get hold of this"
"Miss Wells," Rashid says as I open the office door "I really don’t think my father is the type of man who cares what anyone says on Twitter"
"Tell that to the guy who used to govern Egypt"
I stick my head out the door and into the uards tense when they noticebeside Sarah’s desk, engrossed in conversation with her
"Oh," I say "Hey, Dave It’s me, Heather Wells"
"Hello, Heather" He cli broadly "I hope you don’tby Lisa let me know that the room won’t be available for a while, but I like Fischer Hall so much, I can’t seeht And his increasingly frequent visits have nothing to do with Sarah, who her reflection in a pocket iven that Dave is blind It’s funny how hard it is to break our old habits
Like failing to see what’s staring us straight in our faces, even if we possess 20/20 vision
"No probleuys," I say to Hamad and Habib, who’ve both come to crowd around the door "The prince and Ameera are ready to tell the State Departuards "You know Sarah, can you call Special Agent Lancaster in the surveillance roo to be the best person to handle this"
"Sure, Heather," Sarah says, and picks up her office phone to dial the extension
Both bodyguards look shocked
"Wait," Ha a hand toward Sarah to stop her "Do not make this call!"
"Uh" Sarah stares at him blankly "I already have them on the line--"
Hamad rushes forward, snatches the handset froh violence that I’m certain I hear plastic crack
"How dare you?" Hah to cause ravity is quite low--and rushes toward Lisa’s office door, behind which the prince and Ahness?" Haht," I hear Rashid say "Thank you, Hah, for Aet it," Dave volunteers He walks unerringly in the direction of the office watercooler, finds it by whacking it with the tip of his cane until itsound, leans down to fill a paper cup with cool water, then brings it back an instant later "Will this do?"
Habib looks at him in astonishment
"It will do very nicely," he says "Thank you, sir" Then he takes the water into Lisa’s office, where Ha in hushed voices