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.”

keep my anxiety at bay, choosing instead to have faith that he would see it


crime I’d never committed.

so evident on his face that it made my heart come screeching to a

No. No.

together, after all of the tenderness we had shared, after the fact that I was carrying his seven- month

thought that I was heinous enough to sign

my hand protectively on the swell of my

“Alexander-”

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

like my own rippling through the

I’ve done nothing but prove

spent five years believing you were a spy for your father, and now to find this in his possession…” He shook his head. “I’m going to

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“I’ll help-”

“Without your interference.”

us like a dark cloud, threatening to downpour in

the

saying?” I whispered. I hardly dared to want to hear his response, because I had a sinking feeling I knew what

a long moment, and I could see the war of emotions on

confusion. I could feel them through the bond, too, coming in waves like the ocean crashing violently against the

going to have to put

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