Chapter 183

Derek's POV

I've been reading through one page in the last hour, and I haven't been able to process a single thing. Whenever I try to read a few words, my mind drifts away.

It's been three days since everything happened with Clara, but my mind replayed everything.

I was in my office and back in my suite at the hotel. This made it easier to be at all the other places I needed to be on time.

I hate being back here, though. I think about the time Clara brought me coffee in my office, the time we'd spent talking in the living room, or even the vague memory of how I'd first met her in my bathroom. It's unbelievable to think that I had forgotten everything that happened that night.

Vincent was right, and it was my conscience I was left to answer.

Maybe she didn't deserve what I did, but I didn't deserve to be lied to, either.

Lately, I've been avoiding my whole family. From my grandfather, who finally saw me as having' business partner potential,’ to my parents, who wouldn't stop calling m