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But if anyone could figure out how to do it, it was Shawn

Granted, I didn’t know her well But I figured I knew her well enough to know that when she set her s

Still, though, I found ht have happened to her in son country with only a stack of cash to her name I didn’t even kno much rand, er

Enough, I toldabout it, it was enough e rate of one of the countries nearest to the Maldives

Once the gala was over, I was going to see if I could entice poor, overworked Nia into helping ht And, you know, to ask her questions about Adaet that part

I’d gotten so distracted by otten much of any information out of her

“Theodore!” I said, feeling the first burst of dopaht of Theodore Kane (the 3rd) You could usually tell so all the way up in Jersey?” I asked, knowing he was typically down in Florida, running his fa out with his biker friends

Teddy was a little person who had this penchant for wearing hats that alht, he’d gone with a gray tweed ivy cap that matched his suit

“Fa his head toward the event hall ere standing in front of “You kno it is,” he added

“I do,” I agreed

“You look like hell,

“I, ah, I got a taste of ”

“Where from?”

“Maldives,” I told hi a nod from him Teddy was one of the few people I would have stay at my villa if he was interested I’d known him since we’d both attended the sarade school It was the kind of place that taught crochet and horseback riding and fencing and had celebrity chefs cooking our ood tiet our parents wanted to pawn off our care on others whenever it was possible

“Nice No one hanging off your arm this time? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you at an event without a date”

He wasn’t wrong

But right until that ht hadn’t even crossedwith me