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Seventeen
**The Marriage Clause**
(Chapter Seventeen)
A minute passed.Two minutes passed.Fifteen minutes passed and there was still absolute silence in the room until Ella despairingly cleared her throat, slowly wishing for the tension to die down so she could have a much better conversation with Marcus,as much as it was disgusting to think she was starting to get sexually aroused just by the glimpse of him.
‘What do you want Sheldon?'.Elizabeth asked with her voice hoarse,her throat was annoyingly dry all of a sudden and she hated the way her legs were wobbly just because she was nervous,and he was to blame for all that.Marcus breathed heavily,trying to gather enough courage for what he was about to do...
he didn't have to like her,but he had to do what was right.
‘I uhhh came to apologize for the mishap that happened days ago'.He said.
‘You mean the humiliation you put m
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