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.

you and your husband doing?”

didn’t respond, lan sent another message.

but she was having

the child that was forcefully taken from her, of the

woke up in a

ceiling, taking

could only be done in the early

forced abortion had put too much

but she never expected her dignity to

always

hadn’t reached the point of love, but the pain he inflicted had been seared deeply into her heart, like a nail

got up, poured herself a

she started checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project

reply from her, which left him

the other hand, was engrossed in her work

the surveillance she had installed

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

pick up some art supplies,

morning, and there weren’t many pedestrians on

sent a message to the property management to inquire about the situation when her car was violently hit.

her vision.

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