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.

an arm around her. She gasped, but before she could react, she found herself in his embrace. She could

the one who pressed up against me first,” he pointed out with a grin. When he saw that there was nobody around this section of the exhibit, he dipped his head and placed a chaste kiss on

shoved him aside, and

call to tell him

had 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

Erica has a chance to get

told me that President Presgrave himself agreed to this. Do you think it’s because I

there was no denying how gorgeous she had looked in her evening

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

honest living by working at Bourgeois; instead, she wanted to seduce Elliot so that she could one

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

blinked. “What is it,

but Anastasia’s mother only died because she sacrificed herself

Erica’s eyes widened in surprise. She knew that Anastasia’s mother was a cop who had died while on

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