Night of Destiny Novel by Vanessa K

Chapter 205 Contain Yourself

Elliot smiled as he eyed her teasingly. “Are you asking me for a favor?”

Anastasia shrugged nonchalantly and said, “I’m only doing this on behalf of my dad.”

“Well, seeing as he’s your dad, I don’t think it’d be right of me to refuse him the favor. Get your sister to come into work on Monday,” he declared readily.

She gaped at him in astonishment and realized that he was granting favors out of his gratitude again.

Just then, he tipped his head to the side and glanced at whatever was behind her, drawling, “You’ve got guts bringing me here, though.”

Upon hearing this, she turned around, and she nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw the amphibians and reptiles that were preserved in formalin. She shuddered and shrunk against Elliot like she wanted to put as much distance as she could between herself and the morbid exhibit.

her. She gasped, but before she could react, she found herself in his embrace. She could smell the fresh and pleasant scent of him, and she pushed him away

nobody around this section of the exhibit, he dipped his

Anastasia’s face as she shoved him aside, and she thanked the heavens that Jared and

call to tell him that Erica could start work on

just gotten off the phone with Francis. Then, she flew down the staircase gleefully and found her mother. “Mom! Mom, I’m going to start working at Bourgeois on Monday! President Presgrave was the one who personally hired

mean Erica has a chance

because I

there was no denying how gorgeous she had looked in

him fall for me,” Erica said confidently. She

couldn’t care less about making an honest living by working at Bourgeois; instead, she wanted to seduce Elliot so that she could one day marry rich and have

arm and

“What is

told you this, but Anastasia’s mother only died because she sacrificed herself to save Elliot. Without her, he would have died when he was

Anastasia’s mother was a cop who had died while on duty, but she didn’t think that the reason for

Presgraves owe Anastasia big time, you’ll have to watch your back at Bourgeois. It might only be child’s play for