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Chapter 72: Keep your Enemies Close

Author: Marvey_pearl
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-18 21:29:56

Isabella was lying lazily on the blue bedpace of the Westbridge memorial hospital, her back was up propped up by a pair of thick pillows while right hand, was neatly bound in a plaster cast.

And from this position, her lips were pressed into a thin line as she appeared to be seething in quiet annoyance.

But this situation was more than annoying, it was a disastrous blow.

Not too long lago, she had l received the email from Valencia & Co. Models.

The same agency that had signed her for years now.

The same agency that used to book her for every major editorial, every glossy billboard across New York and other popping cities.

And now? All of a sudden, they were telling her that they were “grateful for her time” but “now ready to move in a new direction.”

“To hell with direction!”

She had not waited to finish reading before she started trying to reach out to them.

She must have dialed for more than seven times but all she kept getting was voicemails.

Not even her old signees numbers
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