“Thank you for staying long enough to assist in finding proper protection for Leo,” I said. Cold. Detached. If she wanted to be a stranger to me, then I had to treat her as such.
“I’m doing it for him,” she said. “Not for you.”
Ouch.
“It still benefits me, and I’m grateful for that.”
With that, she nodded. “If we are done here?”
There was nothing more to say. “Yes. I’m going to need your resignation in writing before you go. But right now, I have nothing for you. You are dismissed.”
Claire’s POV
I knew I had made the right choice. It had been the only choice I could make to protect Nova. Yet, as I walked out of Gideon’s office, I couldn’t help but feel like I was making a terrible mistake. It was as if I already knew this was something I was going to regret every day for the rest of
