8. New woman

Adriana Jensen

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I was on a path to becoming a new woman.

It wasn’t anything too serious. I’d heard of the phrase ‘you have to get under someone to get over someone’. Saint was supposed to be the man I wanted to get under but since he blatantly rejected me last night, my pride took a hit, and rose to the challenge to have him no matter what.

Now, this wasn’t just because of him. This was because I knew I was certain to forget Fabiola and Benjamin if I focused on something else; something better. I didn’t want them to win. I didn’t want them to see me down.

After eating breakfast with Saint, well, I mostly ate while he was on his laptop the whole time, I told him I was going out. To make sure he wouldn’t lock me out of the room later and go back on his word, I requested a key card.

He rolled his eyes as he handed it to me and told me not to stay out too late. We’d spend only one night in the same suite and he was already acting like a nagging father. That was probably because he was