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"This level is maintained for guests."
Zosma explained why Dee was offered accommodations in the upper levels, rather than further inside the property. His reasoning stressed it was a time-management issue, but Dee sensed he wasn’t trusting her with any secrets just yet. The thought made her want to laugh and scream and hit something. That she would come all this way for answers and still have to wait because he didn't trust her seemed cruelly ironic.
Her analytic brain understood his caution, but its logical argument didn't salve her frustration. Now that she was here, now that there was an ending in sight to all this madness, she was ready. Never mind her exhaustion was high enough to blur her vision, stutter her speech, and slow her thoughts. Too much time had been wasted—
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