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Chapter 104
At that moment in time, upon hearing what Megan had just said about GSK Entertainment, Ethan couldn't help but nod his head slowly, a thoughtful expression settling over his features as he considered the possibilities stretching out before them."Well, if that has been the case," he said, "then GSK is going to be our target. I'll speak to the people that I know, the right people, and I'll make sure you get a spot there."Megan's eyes widened slightly at the confidence in his voice, and she found herself momentarily overwhelmed by the sheer weight of everything he had already done for her, everything he continued to do without hesitation or expectation of anything in return."Thank you so much," she said, her voice soft but earnest. "Thank you so much for what you have done and what you continue to do for me. This is way too much, and I honestly cannot even comprehend the full extent of everything you've given me."She paused, her throat tightening slightly with emotion."First of all,
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Megan fell quiet for a few long seconds, the silence stretching between them inside the car as she studied Ethan's face, searching it for the small signs that would tell her whether this was simply another kind gesture, the sort of encouraging thing partners say to each other in passing without any real intention of following through, or whether it was something else entirely. And what she found there, in the steadiness of his eyes and the set of his jaw, told her everything she needed to know before he even said another word. He was serious. Genuinely, completely serious, in a way that few people in her life had ever been serious about anything concerning her future, and that quality in him, that unwavering follow-through, that refusal to offer comfort without substance behind it, was one of the things she had come to love most about him, one of the qualities that had settled itself quietly into the foundation of everything she felt for him."It seems like you're actually very seriou
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Ethan's eyebrows lifted slightly, a flicker of genuine curiosity crossing his face, and he repeated her words back to her slowly, as though testing their weight before fully accepting them. "You're good at acting. Like an actress, professionally."Megan nodded, and there was no hesitation in the nod, no false modesty dressing up the claim, only a plain, settled confidence that came from someone who had spent enough time with a particular talent to know its exact dimensions without needing anyone else's validation to confirm them."Yes," she said. "Absolutely. I'm very good at it. I know how that sounds, like I'm just saying it to sound impressive, but I promise you I'm not exaggerating or dressing anything up for your benefit. I'm good at multitasking too, genuinely good, I can run three conflicting responsibilities at once without dropping any of them, but acting is different. Acting is the one thing I actually love doing, not just the thing I happen to be competent at. It's been a d
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Ethan turned toward her fully then, the easy warmth in his expression deepening into something more deliberate, more resolute, the look of a man laying down a promise rather than simply offering comfort, and his voice, when he spoke again, carried a weight that made it clear he had thought about this far longer than the conversation itself might have suggested."And you should know," he said, "that I will absolutely help you. I will assist you in every single thing you decide you want to achieve, whatever shape that takes, however long it takes to get there. I'm willing to stand beside you and fight for it with you, not behind you, not somewhere off to the side offering occasional encouragement, but right there with you in it." He paused, searching her face. "So tell me. Tell me what you actually want. Not what you think is reasonable to want, not what fits neatly inside the life we already have, but what you actually, genuinely want for yourself. I know there are things sitting insid
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Megan listened to the rest of her father's words with an expression that had hardened into something unreadable, something far past the point where his tone or his manufactured urgency could reach her anymore, and when he finally paused for breath she spoke, and her voice carried none of the heat that had colored it a moment earlier, only a flat, deliberate steadiness that was somehow far more cutting than anger would have been."I can hear that you don't actually have anything important to say to me," she said. "Nothing real. Nothing that matters. And I'm not going to waste any more breath defending myself to you, or defending him, or explaining anything else, because nothing I say is going to change what you've already decided to believe, and nothing you say is going to change what I already know to be true." She paused, letting the silence stretch just long enough to make her next words land with their full weight. "You were never there. Not once, not when it actually counted, not
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Megan's father's reaction to her statement about securing the contract arrived not as relief, not as pride, not as any of the responses a daughter might reasonably hope for after delivering news of a genuine professional triumph, but as something closer to disbelief curdling rapidly into accusation, his voice rising through the phone with a sharpness that made Megan pull the device slightly away from her ear even as she forced herself to keep listening."You think I'm going to believe that?" he said, the words coming fast now, tumbling over one another with the particular velocity of a man who has already decided what the truth is and is simply waiting for the conversation to catch up to his conclusion."You think that good-for-nothing man actually managed to secure a contract like that on his own? I know exactly what's happening here, Megan. I know you're lying to cover for him. You're trying to make it look like he actually did something, like he actually put in real effort, when th
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