Chapter 737

Facing his accusations, Maja was at a loss for words.

She leaned against the wall, feeling absolutely wiped out. But she still had to head to where Lillian stashed her stuff to search for that jellyfish–shaped seal. Seemed like this crowd was hell–bent on finding it. The thing seemed to be pretty damn important.

And she had a hunch that the days ahead would be anything but quiet.

After all, people had been showing up at her doorstep already.

She opened her mouth and finally managed, “I’m beat. I need a breather.”

With that, she turned to leave.

lan quietly fell in step behind her, and when he saw her trying to hail a cab, he yanked her into his own car instead.

Maja ended up in his arms, and he held her tight, not letting her squirm away.

“Penny, are you mad at me?“;

lan couldn’t make heads or tails of her complicated emotions, so he had no clue what Maja was feeling right now.

Maja decided to shut her eyes.

lan planted a soft kiss on her lips, and her eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly’s wings at the touch.

made his heart go’all

head back to

and

and just silently slid

maneuvered the car onto

car, she quickly entered Daly Elston’s house and headed straight for

a chair from the side and smashed the stove to smithereens.

but she beat him to it, “Mr. Raymond,

for answers, but he did steal a glance at her, digging under the

she found a small iron box about the

for a quick peek, and there

beautiful jellyfish carved at the top of the entire seal.

was a kid, she never thought much of it.

artistry of the carving

hell was this seal for?

out big bucks

tight in her palm,

the car, casually smoking a cigarette.

didn’t ask Maja what she found; just opened the passenger door for

to hand it over to lan for

remembering Lillian’s last wishes,

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