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"Excuse me, ma'am. I hope you don't mind me asking but... You're gonna live in a house this big all by yourself?"
"Uh, no," Neve replied to the short, hunched-over old man who'd just sold her a new home. She'd rushed over here right after Tamira's message, not taking a minute to rest before getting set up.
She couldn't stand being back in her old home for even a second longer, so she reached out to people online and bought this place in a flash.
"I have this friend and she'd want to live like royalty, so, yeah."
"That's one demanding friend!"
[You could say that,] Neve thought with a smirk.
