hone slipped, making a loud clat
Noticing that Claudia was awake, Aurora's emotions were a
laudia murmured,
from surgery. Aurora dismissed her confusion over the nois
spotted Claudia's p
shocked by the image on the screen. It
ews and was terrified of worsening Claudia's condition. Struggling to keep her emotions in chec
laced the phone on the bedside table. Closi
ess from the day before. It was evident sh
friend any further, and she knew i
nothing to him. In Delilah's presenc
that this didn't matter, th
ng now was a stark reminder that she'd b
r, would he abandon her s
was e
ts, her teeth gritting wi
the wake-up ca
't endure
had brought breakfast. Seeing Claudia
ed examining Claudia, Jace sudde
laudia called out to him, he
room to check on Jace af
t the ceiling, Claudia was
llis stepped out of the elevator, they saw a n
ackson quer
r Jackson to invest
ions, Jackson turned an
en shifted back t
d at Claudia's
s he pushed open the doo
owly opened her eyes, meeting the ma
ensation do you want?" he said, his voice low with a hint of f
artly to blame for last night's accident. She h
bandaged body, n
he screen lit up. She tried reaching for it, but her move
p the phone and
phone over, she saw the messag
e, an outrageous idea sp
one, she looked up at Bennett a
in town was now making a mockery of her, and she wan
reiterated, "I want yo