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• The next couple of days were a blur, and Chase could barely bring himself to take a break with all the things that needed his attention. Even worse, Ella seemed to have become distant, so distant that he barely recognized the woman she was becoming.
• She was colder, quieter, and didn't particularly pay much interest in how he handled their affairs. This shouldn't have bothered him; he was getting the calm and obedient woman he wished for her to be, but something ate at him, something that he chose to ignore.
• He knew he had overstepped his boundaries with the loophole in the contract, but he needed to close this deal no matter what happened. Even if he had to twist the contract just a little, he would reimburse her for everything later when he wasn't under so much strain, and she would be back to her annoying self once he gave her even more.