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– You’re wasting your breath,” I answered with a smile at her attempt to hurt my feminine self-esteem. – I know all about myself, and it would take more than one hurt moon woman to shake my self-esteem. Why don’t you stop pretending to be something you don’t understand and get down to business? A couple more of your nonsense and I’ll have what could be the event of the century, and I’ll feel sincere sympathy for a whole thoroughbred Lunnic. Your fiancé.

– You know perfectly well that there’s no way you can beat K’raig out of this building. Because he has the resources and the money and, if necessary, all my father’s connections. What do you have besides homeless kids and one pitying report on TV?

– You mean that report, after which your fiancé came to me with a broom and offered me a truce?

She pursed her lips. Or rather, some very small part of them.

– If you, Margarita, thought that you can solve your problem by dirty methods, I assure you – you will not succeed.

– Where can I – an orphan of Kazan without daddy’s connections – get dirty methods?