Chapter 11
Two days later, Maggie receives the contract from Ingrid’s lawyer in her inbox.
The subject line is Ingrid Parker Contract Confidential.
Maggie wanted to get a lawyer, but Willa had a terrible experience with an expensive entertainment lawyer who took weeks to review her contract.
Since Ingrid put a firm deadline on the contract of twenty-four hours, Maggie does the best she can, uploading it to an instant contract-review website for two hundred dollars.
It takes only twenty minutes for the service to shoot her an email saying everything looks good.
She doesn’t know if it was looked at by a real lawyer or just AI, but she is grateful for the speedy turnaround.
Sweat dripping down her forehead, she takes a deep breath and taps on the Sign button.
As her screen reads back All Parties Completed Signing, she screams.
She did it!
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As Ingrid makes arrangements for the first transfusion, Maggie watches her bank account balloon to $100,000 with the on-signing deposit.
She taps Refresh no fewer than ten times because she can’t believe it.
Now with one click she can pay off her student loans, get all her parents’ dental problems fixed, and possibly have enough left over for a new car, which she will drive over to Target to unapologetically buy two bottles of overpriced shampoo, which she will pour over her head right there in the parking lot because she can.
But before she does any of that, she writes an email to Estelle, letting her know that she’s withdrawing from her MFA program.
Almost immediately, Estelle writes back.