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.

react, she found herself in his

that there was nobody around this section of the exhibit, he dipped

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

call to tell him that Erica could start work

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

Does this mean Erica

because I made a really good impression last

Erica had sat next to Elliot during the banquet last night, and there was no denying how gorgeous she had looked in her evening dress! “Erica,” she began. “Make sure to seize every

a chance to run into President Presgrave often enough, I could make him fall for me,” Erica said confidently. She vowed to use every last trick in the book to

an honest living by working at Bourgeois; instead, she wanted to seduce Elliot

her daughter’s arm and said, “Erica, there’s something

blinked. “What is

a huge favor. I’ve never told you this, but Anastasia’s mother only died because she sacrificed herself to save Elliot. Without her, he would have died when he

cop who had died while on

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