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THE GALA CHARADES 1

Author: LUNA INK
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-17 00:21:31

Ethan's POV

All the ideas swimming around me were good—well, almost good. Good enough to awe, but they all had a problem that might haunt me if I couldn't find a solution.

I sat there staring at the jumble of drawings, papers, and charts, the weight of the impending AW Group competition bearing down on me like a mountain. Every idea read so well on paper until I started to think about how it was really going to function.

And that was my issue.

Every single one of them had a hole in it, and if I couldn't fill those holes by Monday, I was going to fail—publicly.

Amanda Sterling would finally have the last laugh.

Not on my watch.

There was no chance that I was going to let her. Not after the way she'd stared at me all week, as if I were just a pretty face who somehow happened to find myself in the company by accident.

This was my moment. To show everyone that I wasn't just some pity applicant or some guy who had stumbled into his position through friends. I was going to win this competi
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