Chapter 15 Coincidence

Corynn soon put her encounter with Amanda out of her mind. She went with Erick to a business dinner with

a few clients, the main purpose of the meeting being to introduce her to them.

At some point during the meal, the clients began to bring up their sons in the conversation. Erick politely

declined their efforts, saying that he already had a prospective son–in–law in mind.

Corynn ignored their idle chatter and only chimed in to handle questions directed at her, questions that

involved her work.

Everyone was quite tipsy toward the end of the dinner. Corynn helped her father to the nearest hotel so they

could spend the night there instead of driving home.

As they walked down the hallway, Erick kept boasting about securing a major contract during that business

meeting.

Corynn felt a mix of pride, amusement, and concern. Her father shouldn’t be drinking so much at his age, but

she also knew that it was unavoidable in social events, and she had to give him his well–deserved win.

into his room and carefully tucked him to bed. Then she headed to her own room next

door behind her when she ran into

instinct was to flee,

no longer had any relationship with Elliot, so why should she react

room to retire. He was irrelevant.

him and walked to the

key from her pocket and tapped it on the door.

sounding a little dazed. He had thought she was an illusion, until she walked past him and he caught a whiff of her familiar scent. “What are you

pushed her door open. She was about to go

another voice.

Amanda asked from inside the room across from Corynn’s. She came out to the hall,

show up in front of Elliot. It hadn’t even been that

if she didn’t love Elliot anymore, then what the hell

just biding her time and waiting for the chance

that she

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didn’t

she had enough good humor left to find the situation amusing. Just how small could the world get for people who didn’t want to meet? She had simply attended a business dinner–at a different

destined to cross paths in one way or another. Although, a small part of her did wonder if they had arranged

“Your questioning is ridiculous. Am I not allowed to

how come you ended up in the same hotel, on the same floor, and even

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