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“It’s her,” ait in”

“I saw her first!” anotherit in”

“No I arowled “I know the prince, so he’d like the intel to come from me”

“Shoveling his ays don’t count as knowing him, Marvin,” the first man said “She’s mine”

“Over my dead body” The other man stepped closer, and as a whole, the crowd shifted toward her “I saw her first”

“No, I did”

Alicia gasped, unable to do ht over her as if she were a scrap ofher hands up, she slid a step sideways toward the doors and said, “Please, everyone cal Let me make a few calls, and—”

A huge iven an NFL linebacker a run for hisSomeone—anyone—call it in”

“But I didn’t do anything,” she cried, edging toward the door again, even though it was clear there was no way she’d be squeezing past the hu it “Please You have to believe me!”

“Doesn’t et you” A woman eyed her nervously “We don’t ask him questions”

“Obviously,” Alicia said, shoving her hair out of her eyes The crowd had for tons of shoith awesoetaway herself…so she sat back down

Was this so to do with her business? She’d coovernment She was here to help

No, there had to be a miscommunication

She picked up her phone

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