Say Yes & The Cinderella Solution

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Now, pipe down,” she ordered, a viselike grip on the paperback. “I’m trying to read here!”

We both know you’re not like them, Charlie.”
The three women stared at him in silence for a long moment. Charlotte was the first to recover.
“Thank you,” Charlotte said, her voice frosty. She pushed his arm off of her. “Would you like me to turn the other cheek, so you can hit me with another backhanded compliment?”

“What else would you be? A hamster?”