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.

worried about her heading home alone so late.

he reached the hotel entrance and saw her on the phone, laughing and chatting, seemingly

instructing Zoey, “Keep our legal team on the case. If Dalia’s son gets a ten–year

said this with lan standing

witnessed her clash with

natural that

her way. So after she hung up the phone, he said, “I’ll get

a cigarette, his eyes red from the smoke and,

around to see

the lit cigarette elegantly, looking at

want to take down the Shepard family, but I won’t allow it. Not only will I keep the Shepard family’s

do it, and it wouldn’t be

at a loss for

He was ruthless with his enemies, and no one dared to

took action himself, but when he did,

on now

through, all her recent efforts would be

nothing more than a moth struggling by

took a deep drag on his cigarette, walked over, grabbed her chin, kissed her, and blew smoke

cigarette he was smoking didn’t have a strong nicotine taste but rather a mild one. It must have

she felt uncomfortable, her eyes reddening from

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