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Everything did not go as planned.

If the gala had been a success? yes, but also an uproar, one that journalists did not hesitate to interview about.

All the preparations were in perfect conditions, the guests enjoyed pleasant conversations between their similar companies and it would have been almost midnight for the gala to come to an end without any mishap.

Was it too much to ask?

There was a shorter distance between success and disaster than that which led to failure. In her case, she was already enough to haze herself. The worst came after Elliot got rid of the stalking Eduard. When she simply returned to the assembly hall avoiding her for the rest of the night.

It was simply amazing how the rumors of what was going on inside the Holmes Enterprise spread all over the media, alerting all the news units gathering at the company entrance like information-hungry zombies.