Chapter 44

The jacket slipped off Claire's shoulder and hit the floor with a soft thud. Standoff. Neither of them moved. She just didn't get where Nelson's hostility toward Adrian was coming from. If it was because he thought she and Adrian had something going on, that was just ridiculous. Heck, they were family. And even if they weren't—say he was really her boyfriend—so what? They were talking divorce here. She was going to move on eventually, right? Even if not with Adrian, there'd be someone else. Was she supposed to stay single forever just because of Nelson? And honestly, who she saw was none of his damn business. But if it had nothing to do with jealousy, Claire really didn't know how else to explain it. Adrian's business in Jadewick had zero overlap with Nelson's. And yeah, okay, the Fields family's other companies did compete with the Coopers', but one was in Jadewick and the other in Raventon—they'd always minded their own lanes. So where was all this fuss coming from? Unless he really