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

had barely closed her father’s door behind

to flee, but she stopped

no longer had any relationship with Elliot, so why should she react to his presence. She

retire. He was

to the

her pocket and tapped

from behind her, sounding a little dazed. He had thought she was an illusion, until she walked past him and he caught a whiff of

not to hear him and pushed her door open. She was about to go inside when she heard

another voice.

inside the room across from Corynn’s. She came out to the hall, and her smile

believe Corynn was so eager to show up in front of Elliot. It hadn’t even been

if she didn’t love Elliot anymore, then

have been lying all along, just biding her time and waiting

was glad that she

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that Corynn didn’t take

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 establishment–booked a random hotel,

one way or another. Although, a small part of her did wonder if they had arranged this on purpose.

a raised eyebrow. “Your questioning is

you ended up in the same hotel, on the same floor,

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