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"Are you two okay now?" an animated Isabella asked.

I pondered my response.

Relatively, yes. We had to keep a low profile since my father had forbidden him, or rather, made him promise to stay away from me, but everything was fine between us.

He loved me, and I loved him. What could go wrong when we both felt the same way?

Although I had to confess that I still had my doubts about the promise and the secret contract between the two of them. But that wouldn't stop me from being with him.

According to the information my father and Ethan had given me, my father had made me choose between my job and him, and apparently, he had chosen his job. But then he told me about the promise he had made.

It all confused me. How did we go from a contract to a promise between the two of them?

I shook my head. It wasn't the time to think about that. I would have plenty of time locked in my room to rack my brain over it.

Now that my friends and I had gotten out of the predicament of my escape, my father