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• “I guess I have my answer already,” Ella said, anger dripping from her tone. “Tell me, does this not go against the contract, Mr. Connor?”
• “None of this, none of the fake front we have been putting on matters if I can’t get the patron seat, and you know that,” he bit right back at her. “You will stay as long as needed, Ella.”
• “We signed a contract,” she spat. “A contract that you were all too glad to wave in my face to drag me here. Does that mean nothing to you now?”