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.

fallen asleep, but

her, of the baby’s body in the hospital trash can, and of a tiny

woke up in

stared at the ceiling, taking

painless abortions before. She knew the operation could only be done in the early stages of pregnancy, when the

forced abortion had

Raymond family didn’t like her, but she never expected her dignity to be trampled on like this.

always

reached the point of love, but the pain he inflicted had been seared deeply

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

of the Greenfield Gardens

from her, which left

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

she had installed at the RosenGarden house.

with the surveillance. It seemed like no

some art supplies, so she drove

there weren’t many pedestrians on the road.

just sent a message to the property management to inquire about the situation when her car

her vision.

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