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Pearl released a sigh of irritation at being pulled back to reality. She swallowed the sarcastic comment on her lips and turned toward the voice. She needed to watch what she said. After all, she wasn’t on Earth anymore.
She had always tended to speak before she thought, especially after working at the bar for so many years. That bad habit had gotten her into trouble more than once. Thank goodness for Tiny, her six-foot-five, three-hundred-five-pound bouncer, and her rock-salt-loaded shotgun. Between the two, she’d seldom been in a situation she couldn’t handle. But, that was back on Earth, and she needed to remember that she wasn’t on her planet any longer.
Still, whenever she heard ‘excuse me’, a hundred different retorts popped into her mind. Since she was on an alien planet, she d
