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Unfortunately, I didn’t have the hundred at that moment, even though I said credit-card-wise I’dpay for her plane ticket to San Francisco. He sounded too ordinary, too suddenly real, for me to keep thinking about drawing a gun and shooting up my office. The word was ohmigod. ” “Maybe not to you, but I gave it just the same.

But sorry was all I had to offer. I feel good, and I shouldn't. Some kind of battle had been fought here—and lost. She let out a shaking breath.