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.”

it closely for a long time. I tried to keep my anxiety at bay, choosing instead


crime I’d never committed.

was 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 child in

I was heinous enough to sign a contract to

placed my hand protectively on

“Alexander-”

cut me off. His voice was low, edged with barely

my own

nothing but prove

believing you were a spy for your father, and now to find this in his

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“I’ll help-”

“Without your interference.”

words hung between us like a dark cloud, threatening

could feel the

his response, because I had a sinking feeling I knew

long moment, and I could see the war of emotions

through the bond, too, coming in waves like the ocean

put you under house arrest

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