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She was nursing her fifth glass of frozen margarita forgoing the tequila and mostly orange liqueur, and lime juice. While she can't get hammered, she still needed to appear drunk, for she was still being watched. The man her mother hired to tail her was in the pocket garden just outside the hotel lobby.
The sun had already set, so there was no point in lying on a sunbed pretending to sunbathe when the sun was already out for the day.
A man sat on her right and started talking to her. She wasn't interested to have a small talk right now, but she has to stay at the bar for another hour or so. A man is a good excuse.
He turned up to be well versed in a lot of topics and despite just wanting an excuse to stay longer at the bar, she ended up enjoying the company of the man who introduced himself as Felix Magbanua.