Night of Destiny Novel by Vanessa K

Chapter 76

At the same time, Hayley forced some tears out of her eyes and pretended to wipe them off with her hands until they arrived at the mansion. Then, she gazed at the man in excitement and asked, “Elliot, would you like to come inside and have a cup of tea before you go?”

“No, thanks. I have a meeting to attend later.” Elliot turned the lady down.

“Well, it’s not going to take you long to enjoy a cup of tea, plus I feel a little lonely being here by myself.”

“As I’ve told you before, you can always invite your family to move in with you if you feel lonely,” suggested Elliot.

“I’ve told them about it before, but they don’t think they’d be used to living with me here.” Hayley’s knee-jerk reaction was to lie because she would never want to share everything she had with the family she hated. After all, they had brought nothing else but pain and suffering into her life, which was enough to justify her resentment toward them.

then,” said Elliot. He then took a look at his watch and continued,

for her to make Elliot stay, Hayley lost herself in the man’s charming smile before she eventually mustered her courage and leaned closer to hug and kiss him. Nevertheless, Elliot was

she watched Elliot drive away with her face flushed, she couldn’t help but wonder why the man had no lustful desires for

he have another woman by his

help remembering the hickey on his neck from the other day. If

messages in the taxi, only to be surprised when she saw her replies to Nigel that she didn’t – remember typing herself. She tried to recall what had happened the day before and remembered that she was in the

reply on my behalf?! Anastasia’s intuition told her that it was Elliot who had texted with Nigel behind her back. However, she was later amused

office just in time to attend the meeting held by Felicia to discuss preparations for the jewelry exhibition next week. While Alicia and Anastasia’s masterpieces were both nominated, Felicia hoped they could both win an award for the sake of the company’s reputation. However, that

to its height, the other buildings that surrounded it looked just like obedient followers who bowed down to their leader. At that moment, Elliot was sitting in his chair in

The finance departmental head called out to

attention to

head was surprised as he quickly cleared his throat and repeated his presentation, but fortunately, Elliot

how distracted he was thinking about Anastasia. Damn! This is the first time I’ve ever lost myself in my train of thought. Soon, he took