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We Are Meant To Be

Chapter 5 Five

Word Count: 1073    |    Released on: 28/12/2023

high ceilings, industrial lighting, and its hardwood floors. But today all she could think about was the look of betrayal on Alfred's face as she left him at the tightly controlled and monito

is arm. Had someone injected him and then, in his woozy and lazy state, manipulated him to take a flight across the country to Napa to gate-cr

they'd both be free. She'd been such a naive fool to believe that when the drug-running charg

d debts to criminals, her inconvenient attraction to a man who blew hot and cold but whom she couldn't avoid, and rocketing from crisis to crisis. It was times like this when Claire wished she had a mothe

rting her but she was terrified that that person would, just like her father had, fade in h

in her, leaving her to waft in the w

e hadn't told anyone else but Damian about Alfred, and the stress age was under, an

her sigh, and gestured to her assistant inside. Anastasia's face reflected the grim mood of the rest of her colleagues: they were worried about the future of Timeless Event

nd knew a dozen questions were hovering over Anastasia's tongue. Claire's respect for her inc

n from her loose bun behind her ear. "The pla

d the social pages and entertainment magazines with utter dedication and Clai

idn't

he was, finally, losing it. "I

someone very famous and intensely publicity-shy. And that's okay. We

, her expression intense

create Delilah Rhodes and Alex Danesbw

gestured for Claire to keep talk

Alex had a ma

ler? Dammit. Okay,

nd what we like, how we like, but it's got to be blow-your-socks-of

nto her face in an effort to

mal Tim is the cost of that lifeline." Claire forces a smile on her own. "But, if we

ake in the news. She's come into her office thinking that the company would not possibly recover from the S

she owed someone a favor and that this was his way of collecting. The Fixer had told her when he checked on Alfred to s

that he wasn't a law-abiding Angel, and she was so relieved that he was asking her to use her skills to repay her debt. Yeah, Zach

ch was still go

nu

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