Chapter 587

Maja just glanced at her phone.

Noticing it was late, she nonchalantly said, “Mr. Raymond, I gotta bounce.*

tan didn’t react, only the sound of his door closing could be heard.

As Maja reached the hotel lobby, a wave of sadness washed over her.

She looked up at the sky, trying to keep the tears from falling.

Then Zoey called.

Zoey would call at least three times a day, reporting on company matters.

But this call wasn’t about the company; it was about the legal team.

“Ms. Pennyfeather, we’ve gotten wind of who’s taken the fall for the Shepard family, It’s Dalia’s son, who’s currently in the slammer. The whole thing’s stirred up a lot of chitchat; even the big shots are paying attention. With solid evidence, things moved quickly, and they’ve taken him away. Dalia is busy scrambling around, hoping to bail her son out. If all goes as expected, he’d be looking at a ten–year sentence.”

It turned out it was someone she knew.

Maja quickly slapped herself in the face, trying to shake off the sadness. She didn’t even notice that lan had followed her out.

about her heading

on the phone, laughing and chatting, seemingly unaffected by his

gets a ten–year sentence, Dalia would definitely hold a grudge against Carlene. Who knows

this with lan standing behind her.

witnessed her clash with

it seemed natural that she would take on the

So after she hung up the phone, he said,

the smoke and, in part, from his anger at

voice, Maja slowly turned around to see him standing behind her.

the lit cigarette elegantly, looking at her

Not only will I

do it,

was at a

financial world. He was ruthless with his enemies, and no one

when he

now was

did follow through, all her recent efforts

a ferocious wolf, and she was nothing more than a

a deep drag on his cigarette, walked over, grabbed her chin, kissed her,

he was smoking didn’t have a strong nicotine

uncomfortable, her eyes reddening

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