Night of Destiny Novel by Vanessa K

Chapter 142

In her dreams, Anastasia gave her mother her word. By the time she opened her eyes again, it was already dawn.

As she went to the front of a mirror, she saw that her slightly swollen eyes had turned visibly more haggard.

After dropping her son off at school, she went to work. The moment she entered the elevator, two women in front of her intentionally spoke in loud voices. “Hey! Wasn’t there a trophy in the display case before? Why is it missing?”

“I heard that it was returned. It was awarded under pretenses so great that someone felt too ashamed to accept it!”

“My, if it were me, I wouldn’t even leave the house, let alone come to work!’

“Would you both like a loudspeaker so that you can make yourselves heard?” Anastasia asked them.

Both of them glanced at her. “Ah, Miss Tillman, we didn’t say who we were talking about! Are you admitting it was you?”

e talking about someone else. Don’t misunderstand us now. Miss Tillman.”

that moment when the elevator stopped at the level of the Department of Design. As Anastasia moved to step out of the elevator, one of the women

apologized in a fake manner despite having clearly

already tidied it up for

morning, Felicia held a

and played with her pen. The noisy conference room suddenly became so quiet that

room door. He hadn’t been to the meetings in several days and she had

down again in her reluctance to

pulled out a chair and sat down next to Anastasia, Felicia greeted respectfully, “Good morning,

the woman next to him. Anastasia

called her

stared at her in astonishment. How bold she had to be to space out so completely even with Elliot sitting

do you hear me?” Felicia raised

she was being called. She quickly—

custom order. The client has expressly asked for you to design her a set of jewelry. You should be

lacked money at the moment, she didn’t

opposite Anastasia was Alice, who kept lowering the collar of her blouse in such a manner that her blouse was becoming out of shape. With intent,

what the woman was doing, Anastasia propped her chin up with a hand and sneered at

furiously blushing Alice glanced at Elliot