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

Maja didn’t respond, lan

already fallen asleep, but she was having

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

woke up in a cold sweat.

stared at the ceiling, taking

operation could only be done in the early stages of pregnancy, when the

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

knew the Raymond family didn’t like her, but she never expected her dignity to

would always remember

love, but the pain he inflicted had been

lan, she didn’t reply. Instead, she got up, poured herself a glass

fall–back asleep. So, she started checking the progress of the Greenfield

didn’t receive a reply from her, which left

hand, was engrossed

breakfast, she checked the surveillance she had installed at

there had been no issues with the surveillance. It seemed like no one had entered

art supplies, so she

morning, and there weren’t many pedestrians on the road.

sent a message to the property management 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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