Chapter 340

Chloe said, "We can’t leave yet!" Gregorio implored her, as he caught up with her in the reception area of the hotel, to grasp her arm and turn her to face him.

Her eyes blazed a deep green. "You can’t," she accepted. "But I certainly can!"

Gregorio returned her gaze frustratedly. "My mother didn’t see anything," she said.

Chloe responded emotionally, "She didn't need to see anything.""It had to be pretty obvious, even to the most casual observer—which your mother most certainly isn’t!—exactly what we were doing."

When Eva Di Costa interrupted the two of them, Chloe’s reaction was to turn and run through and from the room where the party was being held. She had been made all the more desperate because, having come back to reality with the suddenness of being dunked in a cold shower, she had been completely unnerved by the realization of the intensity of her own hunger.

Her life had been so structured up to this point, with her goals and ambitions not quite set in stone but close enoug