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I didn’t have tie the quip "What does a person wear to a state dinner?" I asked

"Why?" Asher said "Are we invited?"

"You aren’t," I told hiht be"

"I’d tell you that was pretty much impossible," Asher replied, "but you’re Tess Kendrick My spidey senses tell ot off the phone with Asher, I tried Ivy one last ti, she still wasn’t picking up I’d written down a phone nuer and called it

"Hello?"

"Anna?" I said "It’s Tess Kendrick"

"Tess!" The vice president’s daughter sounded delighted to hear from me "What’s up?"

I walked to theand stared out at Ivy’s front lawn "I need a favor"

CHAPTER 50

Asher was supposed to bring htthis for you," Es at her brother, who obligingly took hold of them "Asher seems to think your presence at this state dinner is essential for Henry’s continued well-being" She eyed the foyer, seely decided it would not do, then marched up the spiral staircase She set up camp in my bedroom and pulled out my desk chair "Sit"

I cast a pained look at Asher, then sat

"We don’t haveas apparently not a toolbox, but some kind of makeup kit "Don’t flinch"

Over the next hour and a half, I came to the conclusion that Emilia Rhodes was either the devil incarnate or the second coested the second option herself

Emilia threw Asher out of the roo on dresses

"You’re lucky Di goes to a ton of these things," she told me "And that she’s about your size"