“Paris?” Ella sputtered, not sure if she actually heard anything he’d said correctly. Henry casually nodded as if this were no big deal. “We’ll need you there next week. The other five gems we selected will be arriving then as well.” “I’m just . . .” Ella turned to look at her best friends, who stared at her with equally stunned expressions. This isn’t real, is it? “We’d pay you for your time and designs, of course,” he commented. “Would you like me to give you the amount in private or?” “You can talk in front of them,” she said softly while facing him again. “Three hundred K. But we’d own
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