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Chris

Chris had gone to her boss

He’d told Barb that Claire was sleeping with two men

The sheer audacity of his actions left her speechless Was he insane? How could he do so with!

God, and to think, she’d been biting her tongue for the past teeks, urging Dylan to consider ht with his brother She’d assured him all this would blow over, that Chris would eventually calm down and realize as unorthodox as the situation was, the three of the Aidan had concurred, speculating that Chris would come to accept it sooner or later

But she and Aidan had been wrong

Dead fking wrong

"I can see frorown considerably cooler, penetrated Claire’s incensed thoughts

Taking a breath, she curled both hands over her coffee cup Not just because they were shaking, but because she feared she le the life out of her

"I have been seeing two men, yes," she answered in a careful tone "However, I don’t see howon my professional relationship with you, or htly pursed her lips "But I’m afraid it does In fact, your personal life directly affects your professional one"

"I disagree And I have to be honest, Barb, but I don’t feel co this with you Who I date is none of your concern and--"

"Actually, it is my concern," her boss interjected "I hate to do this, but I ned when I hired you five years ago"

Barb bent over and snapped her briefcase open, then extracted several sheets of paper stapled together She set the stack on the table and slid it over to Claire, who inized the standard contract every consultant at Se five"

Clenching her teeth, she flipped through the contract and found page five

"Paragraph three," Barb proernail on the tabletop

Claire felt all the blood drain from her face as she read over the morality clause i it five years ago, and every subsequent year when her contract had been renewed, but she’d never in athat clause