Chapter 809

Maja got a call from Daly Elston’s company; they said some of Daly’s stuff was left unattended. Now that someone was handling his affairs, they reached out to

her.

Maja rushed over, sorting out Daly’s stuff from a pile of jumbled items.

Useless junk, really.

She held a small box, walking slowly from the side of Crystalbrook Valley’s river towards Riverside Haven.

She felt like she was being followed, but she wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination.

She scowled, looking back, but there was no one there.

She felt a chill run down her spine, so she quickened her pace. She was so tense that she tripped and fell down a riverbank while cutting across a strip of greenery. She slid five or six meters, but luckily, it didn’t hurt. She was about to get up when she heard an anxious voice from the roadside.

“Maja, are you okay?”

“Maja!”

Maja thought she had misheard and was about to respond when a man slid down from above.

The path was slippery, especially after last night’s rain, and it was all muddy.

lan had intended to run down, but he was wearing leather shoes and slipped ten meters, ending up even lower than Maja, with one foot already in the water. Maja was still standing in the greenery, her voice cold.

“What are you doing here?”

lan pretended to clean the mud off his trousers but didn’t answer.

Maja was angry, squeezing the box in her hand.

are you stalking me?”

“No.”

are you here?”

at Crystalbrook Valley; they asked me to come over. I didn’t notice

skeptical; she shot him a glance, then

shoes were all wet. He took a small path uphill. Maja was ahead of him, but she wasn’t on the small path, so she tripped on a branch and fell again.

to her side, squatting down to help

seemed not to see his extended hand and hurried to pick up

the air awkwardly for a while, and then he asked, “Am I some sort of scary virus?”

quietly. Spring was around the

“No, you’re not.”

when he

a loss for words.

and closed his mouth, then withdrew

few minutes before continuing

the time he reached the roadside, Maja was already a hundred meters ahead.

to catch up, keeping a safe

Haven, a person in charge ran up to ask,

what

fallen leaves, and his trousers were

“I’m fine.”

toward his room. When he opened the door, he instinctively glanced at the room

door next door was tightly shut, and he had no idea what she was doing inside.

things, put the box aside, took a shower, and started working

contacting Wilma again

was still throwing à tantrum, insisting on meeting with Elvis.

to see

her. He had already told Maja that he wouldn’t deal with

artists to manage right now; he might not have time

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