Chapter 1017

He didn’t request anyone to pick him up, nor did he accompany Fitch. Instead, he made a call to Maja.

“I’m at the airport. Can you come and pick me up?”

His question seemed polite, but his tone was subtly urging her to hurry.

However, Maja wasn’t the one who answered. She was in a meeting and had left her phone with Zoey.

Zoey, irritated by his presumptuous tone, coolly replied,

“Mr. Raymond, Ms. Pennyfeather is in a meeting, and it will go on until noon.”

lan’s brow furrowed in disappointment, but he didn’t say anything further.

He asked Jeff to pick him up instead, but halfway through, Tyler called him to discuss a rumor circulating in their circle.

“What rumor?”

“It’s about Maja. They say she’s been seeing her first love.”

lan’s body stiffened, his eyes darkening, “Who said that?”

couple of days, Maja has been staying in–a hotel, not returning to Rosewood Manor or the office. Rumor has it that she’s meeting her

phone tightened, “Who’s spreading

know it’s a lie? Alma provided the hotel records, and I called the hotel myself. She was indeed there for two days. Everyone knows her company is really busy right now, dealing with Funfly Darcy. How would she have the time to just hang out at

tone turned cold,

“Don’t trust Alma.”

or not, why

the call, lan rubbed his

slept in two nights and hadn’t had the time to

to Maja’s office.”

at him through the rearview mirror

Star Movie group and walked into Maja’s

people on the top floor whispered amongst themselves, but no

entered the conference room, standing beside Maja. No

had been up all night worrying about the marks on her body.

into a meeting first

meeting, she

a small lounge in her office with a double sofa. It didn’t have a

man sitting in the corner

in her thoughts,

was frustrated and felt ridiculously embarrassed.

sofa and took off her work jacket, only to be

enveloped her, his arms holding

a sense of security.

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