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She just needed rest Besides, the press conference was going to start in less than eight hours, and she still had to prep for a teaser piece to go out before too over everything she needed with his secretary beforehand She didn’t have tiht on by far too much deprivation

But maybe she did have time for some mindless white noise

As she flipped the TV on, she grimaced when CNN came on first Granted, as a newshound, she needed to stay on top of as happening, but she’d also been on an international flight, exhausted froah, her stomach scrunched up and bile rose in her throat It was a flash of a headline from El Salvador, where two dozen people were killed in a cartel shootout

It all leads back to Jackson, damn it

So et to the scotch and blot out her guilt None of this would be happening if she’d stuck to her guns, just like heras she stayed silent, those people and all thethe scotch into her first tu the amber liquid burn its way down her throat

God that felt good Hopefully it could take an edge off her guilt and give her just enough liquid courage to get through tonight

“And so,” he said, s as best he could for the assorted reporters, “that’s the basic presentation on our facilities Do you have any questions?”

His eyes drifted over the crowd of assorted and so blue eyes and that shiny olden hair in the back of the room Amir wasn’t sure why he needed so badly for her to co to be here After all, her paper had sent her to cover the full unveiling of the resort Still, she hadn’t been there at the start, and now that he was staring back at her, he could see so different in her eyes Instead of the disdain mixed with mirth from before, he saw eyes that seemed red and less sharply focused

Has she been drinking?

One of the reporters from a British paper started the Q&A with a simple question about what he hoped to add to the resort as time went on But then it was Miss Sinclair who had her hand up Actually, she was practically standing on her tiptoes and waving her arm all over, almost as if she were at a party It wouldn’t have looked odd for her to have a lit lighter in her hand, like at the encore of a rock concert

Still, he wanted to hear from her, so he called on her

“Yes, the reporter froton Sentinel Ah, Miss Sinclair, I believe”

“How can you justify the use of your resources to create yet another resort in the outer reaches of the city? There are already a fair share of casinos and luxury hotels around the For track, and yet the city’s infrastructure and urban planning are a rinned back at him, her expression sharp and feral like a wolf “Or do I need to break this down into further constituent parts?”

He blinked, realizing that he’d walked right into a trap She actually wasn’t the first reporter to criticize the creation of the Ali Babba for that reason Usually, though, the bulk of them were journalists within Abu Dhabi, itself The locals were angry at sootten in the rush to expand the glittering, outer edge as a tourist attraction A question as this press conference