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.

she could react, she found herself in his embrace. She could smell the fresh and pleasant scent

this section of the exhibit, he dipped

to Anastasia’s face as she shoved him aside, and

Francis a call to tell him that

the staircase gleefully and found her mother. “Mom! Mom, I’m going to start working at

this. Does this mean Erica has a chance to get

to this. Do you think it’s because I made a really good impression last night?” Erica asked happily and

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

run into President Presgrave often enough, I could make him fall for me,” Erica

care less about making an honest living by working at Bourgeois; instead, she wanted

that moment, Naomi clutched her daughter’s arm and said, “Erica, there’s

blinked. “What is it,

Elliot actually owes our family a huge favor. I’ve never told you this, but Anastasia’s mother only died because she sacrificed herself to save Elliot.

surprise. She knew that Anastasia’s mother was a cop who had died while on duty, but she didn’t think that the reason for her death was a great sacrifice to save

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