CHAPTER TEN
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RICHARD

"Give me a minute, sir," the receptionist said.

After a few taps on her computer, she nodded in a satisfied manner. Beaming, she handed me my debit card. Shock had made him pale considerably even under his tan.

"Your payment is successful, Mr Richard," she said.

"I can see that. Thank you." I leaned casually against the desk and turned to Samson who still had not recovered the power of speech. I brushed an invisible speck off my shirt and regarded him coolly. "What was that you were saying?"

His eyes flashed and burned. The veins stood out on his forehead.

"You- you-" he stammered, paused.

"Me what? If you have something else to say to me, now is the time because I will soon go in there-" I jerked my thumb in the direction of the exclusive part of the mall. "-to buy stuff, and I don't imagine I will be out for hours. Or perhaps you don't have anything else to say. You seem to have exhausted your supply of words since you had so much to say earlier."

I straightened and made it
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