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

respond, lan sent another message.

already fallen asleep, but she

of the child that was forcefully taken from her, of the baby’s body in the hospital trash can, and of a

up in a

ceiling, taking deep

the operation could only be done in the early

because the forced abortion had put too much pressure on

didn’t like her, but she never expected her dignity to be trampled on like

would always

inflicted had been seared deeply into her heart, like a

up, poured herself a glass of water, and after drinking it, felt slightly calmer. Then she went back upstairs.

the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and reviewed some

reply from her, which left him feeling

hand, was engrossed in her work

she had installed at the RosenGarden house.

night, there had been no issues with the surveillance. It seemed like no one had entered her room in the past

art supplies, so she drove to

and there weren’t

about the situation when her car was violently hit. Her head slammed into

her vision.

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