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My counterpart, E as she and the woman shook hands

The CEO’s PA wore a probably expensive but dull-looking black silk evening suit It had a ht skirt Sturdy black shoes peeked out from under the hem

Eoas, she knew, spectacular Her shoes had all the substance of a spider’s web, the slender heels five inches high

One of theht wryly, was not suitably dressed

The restaurant where Marco had booked a private rooe of getting an all but unprecedented fourth

It orld faant

E that decade-old visit she, Jaimie and Lissa had paid to their father

“The obligatory paternal visit,” Jaiht

They all hated those pilgries To be fair, now that Emily was older, she knew their father really had wanted to spend tihters The trouble was, he didn’t kno to do that withoutthe they did was a reflection on him

The one well

Their father had ordered for thene oysters Jais Emily had shuddered

In fact, their palates were sophisticated

It was their behavior that wasn’t

They were horirls can be, filled with the need to assert themselves to a father who did not believe that children could or should be assertive