Chapter 219

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Chapter 219

Ella

I had never seen that contract before in my entire life.

“Do you care to explain?” Alexander’s face was red with fury, green eyes so dark that they were nearly

black.

Explain myself? What was there to explain?

“Alexander,” I said, handing the contract back to him, “I have no idea what this is. I’ve never seen it

before.”

He blinked at me like I’d just sprouted a second head or perhaps told him that the sky was purple instead of blue. “It’s got your signature on it.”

Indeed, the contract did have my signature on it. But it wasn’t mine. Not really. “It’s a forgery,” I said simply, frustration coiling low in my gut at the very notion–I wasn’t angry with Alexander, but rather with whoever had stolen my identity to use in this facade. “I swear to you, I never signed a contract like

this.”

for a long time. I tried to keep my anxiety at bay, choosing instead to have faith that he would see it for what it was–a fake–and forgive me for


crime I’d never committed.

again, the distrust was so evident on his face that it made my heart come screeching to a halt in

No. No.

signed that contract, could he? After everything we’d been through together, after all of the tenderness we had shared,

heinous enough to sign a contract to

placed my hand protectively on the swell

“Alexander-”

Ella,” he cut me off. His voice was low, edged with

felt like my

but prove myself to

spy for your father, and now

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“I’ll help-”

“Without your interference.”

a dark cloud, threatening to downpour in the very

the temperature drop by several

to hear his response, because I

I could see the war of emotions on his

confusion. I could feel them through the bond, too, coming in

to have to put you under house arrest until this is

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