Elle: The Strongest Opponent

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Ethan got hold of Elle’s wrist and he pulled her into him to whisper into her ears. “Shut the fuck up and ask your goddamn things from the floor.”

She gritted her teeth. “What do you mean? They humiliated me.”

“This is you just signing your own paper to be thrown out of the family. If you want to be safe here, you better take back those words and act like nothing happened. You need to be accepted in this family if you want things to go as planned.”

Of course, she wanted things to go as planned. Ethan was right. This was the family that she was dying to join and if she needed to secure a space in their hearts, she needed to pretend like nothing happened and take whatever they threw at her.

And so, she did exactly just that. With a smile plastered on her lips, she pulled away from Ethan but not without landing a kiss on his cheek. Slowly, she returned her attention to the crowd, her eyes on the oldest woman who stood on the platform.

“Of course, that’s a joke. I didn