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“We can fix this”

“No,” she said, pulling away from him She felt anxious to collect her clothes fro to fix”

Chapter Eight

“I don’t knohat you want ravely as ever Idly, she wondered how ars the man had smoked in his life in order to have achieved a voice like that “I truly don’t You were sent to Abu Dhabi to cover the opening of a casino The next thing I know, I have every editor in the city calling to laugh inon the Life and Style beat”

A over her “I know”

“Good Then can you explain what happened? Because I feel like an alien has taken over someone I care about”

“It’s not like that”

Harris shook his head and raked a hand through as left of his thinning hair “You’re one of thereporters I have here First, you rush to press withoutht Then you take an assignment you couldn’t care less about and turn it into a sex scandal for the Sentinel”

“Yes”

“I’ve had the owners on the phone with ry” He shook his head again

“I can’t even i had turned out She’d been a fool not to think of cameras herself, to be so loose “What’s the verdict?”

“You knohat it has to be You are an a journalist, but there’s no place for you here anymore, and I swear to God, Sinclair, that eats me up”

“I know, chief,” she said, her voice thick with eer bag “I knohat I did, and I can only take responsibility for that”

“I knew your mother”

Her heart stilled, and she turned back to look at hiuess you crossed paths with her at the Post”