Chapter 110

Worried about offending lan, she turned slightly as she sneezed, her shoulders shaking. Her face looked paler from being drenched in the rain, her wet hair obediently sticking to her cheeks, her eyelashes heavy with droplets of water.

Her clothes were thin and clung to her, outlining her elegant figure.

Maja rubbed her burning eyes and seeing lan’s car still there, politely asked, “Mr. Raymond, still burning the midnight oil?”

lan was indeed working overtime. There was a party at his family’s mansion the next night which he had to attend, so the meeting had been brought forward and had just ended.

He had assumed that Maja would ask for a lift, considering it was hard to get a cab at this intersection and she had neither a bag for a phone on her.

But his car had been parked there for two minutes, and the cars behind were honking. He hadn’t said anything, and Maja just smiled at him, politely and courteously, like treating an important client. lan was somewhat annoyed, but he didn’t know why.

“Where do you live?” he asked, his tone cold, his profile exuding a chilly air.

Maja needed to get some documents from the Pennyfeather family, but if she went there, lan would definitely find out about her identity in advance.

Plus, she was soaked through, getting in the car would only dirty it.

“I live nearby.”

the first time he’d offered to take

as calm as

inviting her in. Just as she was about to make an excuse to refuse again, a handle popped out from the car door,

an umbrella,

wasn’t until Maja heard his words that she reacted

Mr. Raymond, I’ll retum it to

met, she had been addressing him as “Mr.

to refuse again would be impolite. In fact, according to her truest thoughts, she wanted to boldly ask

cab fare. But wouldn’t that blatantly indicate that she didn’t want to ride in lan’s car? That

back home. It would only take half an to walk back

her really walking

reached the point where her feet began to ache, she

gate was

Pennyfeather, you… why are you here?”

get a document

she spoke, she walked through the

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