Chapter 21 Know Your Place Part 2

• Claire
• “Christian, she told me that you slept with her,” I said, my voice laced with frustration, my eyes scanning his face for any sign of guilt, any flicker of emotion that would confirm what I already knew.
• Christian, however, didn’t react the way I had expected him to. He didn’t flinch, didn’t offer an explanation or even a defense. Instead, he simply exhaled, his fingers pausing over the pen he had been holding as he finally placed it down on the desk. Then, after a brief but deafening silence, he lifted his gaze to mine and asked, in a voice as cold as steel, “Claire, how old are you?”