Chapter 514

After hanging up the phone, lan felt like the pile of documents in front of him had lost all meaning.

The thought of Penny being with another man tonight was more than he could bear.

Back at the hotel, lan lay on the bed, still able to smell her lingering scent on the sheets. The fragrance seemed to permeate every pore of his body from all directions.

lan couldn’t sleep. He got up in his pajamas and lit a cigarette by the floor–to–ceiling window.

The window in the corner was open, and the breeze from outside caused his hair to quiver slightly.

He held the cigarette between his fingers, feeling as though the wind carried her scent with it.

He remembered pressing her against this window; her fearful yet reliant look stirred something in him,

lan’s gaze turned intense. Originally, he had the cigarette lightly clamped in his mouth, but now he bit down hard, as if to suppress the excitement coursing through his body. He took out his phone and sent a message to Maja.

“Are you asleep?”

lan was a very low–key person. He never shared his life on social media and rarely liked others‘ posts.

He also seldom initiated a chat with anyone late at night, let alone with a woman.

But Maja was his exception.

and your husband

Maja didn’t respond, lan sent another message.

had already fallen asleep, but she was

her, of the baby’s body in

up in a cold

the ceiling, taking

knew the operation could only be done in the early stages of pregnancy, when the baby hadn’t fully formed in her

the nightmare because the forced abortion had put too much pressure on

but she never expected her dignity to be trampled on

would always remember

pain he inflicted had been seared deeply into her

message from lan, she didn’t reply. Instead, she got up, poured herself a glass of water, and after drinking it, felt

asleep. So, she started checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and reviewed some

from her, which

on the other hand, was engrossed in her work until dawn.

she checked the surveillance she had installed

seemed like

some art supplies, so she drove to RosenGarden.

in the morning, and there weren’t many pedestrians

inquire about the situation when

her vision.

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