He slapped harder than the last, knocking out two of her teeth. “You are absolutely ridiculous, woman! If you don’t know anything, then just shut up. Do you even know who she is? She’s the youngest daughter of the head of the Stoermer family in Michigan! She’s an actual princess in this country, yet you call her a scammer? You really do have a death wish, don’t you?”

“What?”

“The princess of the Stoermer family of Michigan? You… you’re Miss Xyla Stoermer?’

Long Beach wasn’t far from Michigan.