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Chapter Twenty-Three: Dinner With The Master
Author: A.D. Lee
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After being in a flight for seven hours and twenty-five minutes, Gracie Anne is now at Madrid-Barajas Airport in Spain. She is just waiting for her next flight that will take her to Deia, Mallorca. She still has one hour of waiting time until her next flight, so she decided to call her parents just to check up on them and also to let them know that she safely landed in Spain.

She dialled her mother's number, but much to her dismay, it went straight to her voicemail. She then decided to call her father's number, but it also went straight to his voicemail.

"What on earth is going on?" she curiously asks herself.

Well, maybe her father is in a middle of a very important business meeting, and her mother is busy doing her usual charity activities with her friends...

"Stop being a worrywart, Gracie Anne! I'm sure they are okay." she tries to convince herself.

To stop herself from worrying too much and getting all paranoid again she decided to s
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