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– I’ll tell you just how much a dollar costs

it is the price of having a spot in Heaven –

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Dahlia Fury

‘Oh, my God, Dahlia, you have to help me,’ Stella, my best friend and roo at the threshold theatrically wringing her hands

Stella is a well-known drama queen so I don’t panic I mute my video and turn towards her ‘Cal’

‘I have a e client in less than an hour and I’ve just realized that I’ve also got another client co here’

See what I est reasonably

‘I can’t do that The one who is co here is that crazy rich bitch fro to recommend me to all her crazy assed rich friends in Richmond She’s probably already on the train And the other is a Russian Mafia boss’

I frown First of all, I didn’t know she had a Russian mafia boss as one of her clients Must address that one later, but not yet ‘So what do you want me to do?’

‘Can you stand in for me?’

I shake my head resolutely ‘Nope Absolutely not You’ll just have to tell the Mafia boss that you can’t make it’

‘I can’t do that,’ she wails ‘One of the clauses in the confidentiality agreened was that I would never reed it unless it was a life or death situation’

‘Huh?’ I cock an eyebrow ‘He reement?’

She makes an exasperated sound ‘Yes’

‘What kind of person puts an unreasonable clause like that into an agreeenuinely surprised

‘Dahlia,’ she screa out of time here’

‘It’s simple Go on to the Mafia boss, and I’ll tell your other client when she arrives that she can have a free e next week’

‘No, she can’t come next week She is away, and anyway, she’s in pain and really needs me’

‘So tell the Mafia boss that you can’t make it because you have a life and death scenario’

‘You want me to lie to Zane?’ she asks incredulously

‘If that’s what his name is,’ I reply coolly

She coed ani to lie to hiot like the coldest ht through you’

I laugh ‘I can’t believe you said that’

‘I’ to him is out of the question’