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.

been in a 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!

she had done something great in her past life, to be offered

now, her scent was even more familiar, but for

a

she had been crouching there all along, picking up the

box was because she

our toes around you, we’re all

voice was barely a whisper as she said

his brows and let go of her

contact made him uncomfortable. He had

reflex.

he realize he had been holding on for a minute.

if the stress from his grandfather pushing him so hard was

“Got it.”

ever. Then he walked out,

faded away

gone upstairs, did

in to charge and saw that it was Neil Pennyfeather who had been calling. He wanted her to bring lan to

before, but all Maja felt

was extremely opposed to her identity, there was no way

nerve–wracking moment with lan just now and felt that she just

morning, she didn’t leave the house, waiting for lan

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