CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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ELLA HURRIED INTO THE conference room, trying to catch her breath. She was late, although she had been running to get there. That hadn't happened in her entire career. She might have been late a few minutes when she met her friends, but not for business meetings.
Everything had gone wrong that morning. Ella didn't need the alarm to wake up, but she didn’t even hear it that day. She woke up an hour and fifteen minutes late, so she rushed through her morning routine to gain time.
Mark hadn’t spent the night before with her because he had to meet one of his good friends. Otherwise, at least, he would have woken her up.
Ella used to take the shuttle to the subway in the morning, but the shuttle had already left when she got downstairs, so she hurried to the stre
