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Will Ali Fedotowsky return to The Bachelor after her dramatic, not-at-all-staged exit on Monday’s “shocking” episode? All signs obviously point to a contrived yes.

Ali, a 25-year-old advertising account manager with Facebook in San Francisco, Ca., abruptly left at the end of this week’s Bachelor episode to return to her position.

After Fedotowsky’s boss gave her an ultimatum – quit the show or lose your job – Bachelor star Jake Pavelka wouldn’t “guarantee” he’d give her the final rose.

So Ali up and left … but for how long?!?

“We haven’t seen or heard the last from Ali,” host / pimp Chris Harrison says. “I think everyone saw that it was unresolved when she left. You could tell that they both definitely were falling in love with each other, if not already.”

“Tey’re definitely not done talking about this with each other.”

SO SAD: Chris says Jake “has strong feelings” for Ali Fedotowsky.

“Jake said it was tough to watch her leave again last night,” Harrison recalled. “I asked if he considered promising Ali that she was the one so she would stay, and Jake said, ‘Well, she wasn’t the one. She was one of the front runners.'”

“He said she needed to decide on her own and he didn’t want to be desperate and beg, but he really didn’t want her to go,” and Ali certainly struggled with the choice.

“She loves her job and we tried to make it work, but in the end her boss said you’ve got to choose,” he says. “Do you want to do the show or do you want your job?”

He adds that fans shouldn’t give her a hard time: “You want to be the romantic, but you can’t fault her for loving her career.” Especially not in this economy, right?

That leaves Vienna Girardi, Tenley Molzahn and Gia Allemand fighting for Jake’s final rose … unless Ali makes a surprise return, as hinted in next week’s preview.

Who should Jake Pavelka choose on The Bachelor?