Chapter 20 Know Your Place Part 1

• Claire
• The drive to Christian’s house was not something I had planned, nor was it something I had truly thought through, but the moment my fingers clenched around the steering wheel, my knuckles turning white from the force of my grip, I knew there was no turning back. I was operating purely on instinct, desperation, and an unshakable rage that had been simmering inside me ever since Christian had uttered those fateful words in the restaurant, words that had cemented my downfall, words that had marked the end of everything I had worked so hard to build for the past ten years.
• I could not accept it. I would not accept it.