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CHAPTER SEVEN: Bellamy Inc

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Emma's POV

The first contract is small.

A French textile company, family owned, three generations deep, currently losing money in ways that are entirely preventable if someone who knows what they are looking at would just look at it. They find me through a mutual contact of my mother's cousin who knows someone who knows someone, which is the least glamorous origin story for a business relationship I can imagine, but here we are.

I know nothing about textiles.

I learn everything about textiles.

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