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“Getting to work” turned out to be Margot’s version of helping to spread Autumn’s cover story about being a refugee de la Paz around town, including sending one of the McAllister cousins, Sarah Willis, over to the shop to make friends with her. Sarah was Boyd’s niece, and apparently Margot thought that being seen chumming around with someone who was closely connected to one of the clan elders could only be a good thing.
Which was fine by Autumn. Sarah was a year younger than she was, and probably should have been in college if such a thing had truly been available to the McAllister clan. There was a community college in their territory but no four-year university, and so if they wanted to get a bachelor’s or anything more, they had to study online the way Michael apparently was.
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