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.

are you and your husband doing?”

respond, lan sent another

but

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

in a

the ceiling,

done in the early stages of pregnancy, when the baby hadn’t fully formed in her womb yet.

the forced abortion had

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

always remember this.

pain he inflicted had been seared deeply into her heart, like a nail hammered into

she got up, poured herself

of the Greenfield Gardens project

her, which left

was engrossed

surveillance she had

that night, there had been no issues with the surveillance. It seemed like no

needed to pick up some art supplies,

seven in the morning, and there weren’t many pedestrians

to inquire about the situation when her car was violently hit. Her head slammed into the steering wheel, blurring

her vision.

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