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• He stood across from her, his gaze following her every move even if all she did was simply brush her hair and ignore his presence, the very same thing she had been doing for the past thirty minutes. Ella’s head had begun to fully ache, but it was all she could do to compose herself and she continued brushing through her hair to avoid looking at him.
• “Whatever is going on between us, I hope you can be civil enough to keep it behind closed doors,” he said flatly. “We wouldn’t want another occurrence of poor character and judgment like we had in the hall.”
• His words were met with silence, and a frown twisted his face into something not so composed.