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

didn’t respond, lan sent another message.

fallen asleep, but she

from her, of the baby’s body in the hospital trash

up in a cold sweat.

ceiling, taking deep breaths.

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

the nightmare because the forced abortion had put too much pressure

she never expected her dignity to

would always

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

herself a glass of water, and after drinking it, felt slightly calmer. Then she

to fall–back asleep. So, she started checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and

didn’t receive a reply from her, which left

was engrossed

surveillance she had installed at

surveillance. It seemed like no one

art supplies, so

there weren’t many pedestrians on

to the property management to inquire about the situation

her vision.

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