Chapter 161

Maja’s phone was tucked securely in her pocket, yet she had no idea who was calling her that night. Even though she had silenced her phone, the calls kept rolling in, one after the other.

The ringing seemed incessant, as if it wouldn’t stop until she picked up.

Things had escalated to the point where Maja felt cornered. She was already contemplating how she’d explain herself once lan finally recognized her.

It was such a night. The rain was roaring outside and the only sound inside was the ringing of her phone.

Maja bowed her head, trying to fish her phone out of her pocket.

“Mr. Raymond, actually I…”

Before she could finish her sentence, a thunderclap echoed from outside the window, but with no accompanying flash of lightning, the room remained in darkness.

Due to the sudden burst of thunder, lan missed the unique change in her voice.

Otherwise, he would have recognized immediately, that this was his designer.

At this moment, however, he couldn’t hear anything over the sudden thunder and the ringing phone.

Maja had prepared herself to give up and had even thought about how she would apologize.

But the moment she pulled her phone out of her pocket, it powered down completely.

It wasn’t her doing though, the phone had simply run out of battery and shut off.

spent the entire previous night at the hospital. Her phone hadn’t. -had a chance to be charged and after all the incessant ringing, the battery was finally depleted.

What a coincidence!

almost started to wonder if she had done something great in her past life, to be offered such a turn

They were close now, her scent was even more familiar, but

new here and I accidentally broke a bowl

she had been crouching there all along, picking up the broken pieces of the

didn’t know where the fuse box was because she was

said we should always be on our toes around you, we’re all scared of messing up.”

voice was barely a whisper as she said

brows and let go of

made him uncomfortable. He had only grabbed her wrist out of

reflex.

he had been holding on

his forehead, wondering if the stress from his grandfather pushing him so

“Got it.”

ever. Then he

listening as his footsteps faded away

sure he had gone upstairs,

in to charge and saw that it was Neil Pennyfeather

something he had requested before, but all Maja felt

to her identity, there was no way he

and felt that she just couldn’t

didn’t leave the house, waiting for lan to

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