Night of Destiny Novel by Vanessa K

Chapter 106

“Nigel?” Anastasia couldn’t help but stare at him dumbfoundedly. Nigel gave her a boyish smile as he held the passenger’s door open before pulling out a bouquet of roses and handing it to her. “Here. It’s for you.”

“Why are you giving me these flowers?” she asked in a rather clueless voice while she took the bouquet from him.

“Do you like them?” He gazed at her longingly. “Let’s have dinner tonight!”

“Tonight? Um… Okay!” Right after Anastasia finished her words, she intentionally turned to glance at the luxury car with its oppressive presence. Nigel turned and pretended that he had only just noticed the car. He smirked before walking over to greet the person inside.

The car window went down, and Elliot turned to meet gazes with the other man. “Are you done with work, Elliot?” Nigel greeted him before changing the topic intentionally. “I’m here to pick Anastasia up for dinner. We’ll leave now.” With that said, Nigel walked back to Anastasia before he put an arm over her shoulder in a practiced manner. He opened the passenger’s door, and his body leaned close to hers as he helped her into the car.

accelerator and sped off. Nigel’s plan had been to drop by

made its way out of its parking spot. The tinted glasses made it impossible for anyone to look through the windows, so no one knew the expression that Elliot wore on his face as he drove off. However, after the black Rolls-Royce

knows I’m having dinner with Nigel, I’ll have a reason not to buy him dinner. She pulled her phone out to

have you been?” Nigel

too bad!” she uttered while rubbing her

building near your workplace, Anastasia. I’ll be moving my office over, so we’ll be really close

just to be closer to me? Do you have too much

story. I don’t like my father’s office—it’s a little too old-fashioned for me. So, I figured I’d renovate a whole new space for myself. Then, for the sake of being able to have lunch with you, I decided that I would pick a place nearer to you!” Nigel had made up

me can never understand

flatly.

direction of the kindergarten. While Anastasia went down to pick

stole a look at her phone to see that Elliot hadn’t responded to her-she wasn’t even sure if he had seen her text. After dinner, Nigel brought Jared to shop for presents as usual. Anastasia knew better than to stop Nigel from doing such things. As Nigel held Jared in his hand, it seemed like Nigel was an uncle who was bringing

residential area. When he recalled how Anastasia and Elliot had brought groceries back home earlier that day, he decided that he wanted to visit Anastasia’s

for a