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.

rush when she left the house tonight and had 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

What a coincidence!

past life,

shut down. They were close now, her scent was even more

new here and I accidentally broke a bowl earlier, so

along, picking up the broken pieces

the fuse box was

we should always be on our toes around

barely a whisper as

furrowed his brows and let go of

close with women, physical contact made him uncomfortable. He

reflex.

did he realize he had been holding on for a minute.

his forehead, wondering if the stress from his grandfather pushing him so hard was starting to get to him.

“Got it.”

Then he

faded away

was sure he had gone upstairs, did she

in her room, she plugged her phone in to charge and saw that it was Neil Pennyfeather who had been calling. He wanted her to

was something he had requested before, but all Maja

was no way he would agree to go to her place.

lan just now and felt that she just couldn’t stay in Rosewood Manor

didn’t leave the house, waiting for lan to leave

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