Chapter 1119

lan hadn’t expected Judith to suddenly embrace him. He’d just been about to push her away when she let go, tilting her head back to talk to him.

His mind was somewhat foggy, his fingertips still absent–mindedly touching the piece of fabric from before.

After a while, he lowered his hand, hearing Judith ask, “lan, do you want to grab dinner with me tonight?”

lan averted his gaze, an image of Maja flashed in his mind, but he quickly discarded it.

“Sure.”

Judith’s gaze passed over him, landing on Maja in the distance, her expression full of challenge.

“Sounds good. You can choose the restaurant. Just let me know where”

Maja knew Judith was just trying to provoke her, and it was working, she was genuinely irritated.

She turned around, retreating back to the elevator

As the elevator doors closed, she leaned against the back wall, feeling exhausted.

When she reached the lobby on the first floor, she ran into Jeff.

Jeff was holding a bouquet of flowers, looking somewhat awkward when he saw her.

“Ms. Pennyfeather”

weren’t for her. They must be for Judith.

a small smile, nodding, and

unsure of what to

floor, he gave the flowers to another woman in a different room, the wife of a close business associate. The flowers

he saw lan, he said, “I ran into Ms. Pennyfeather”

thought he had run into her at the Raymond Corporation building, he just

find a good restaurant

taking Ms. Sanders out for dinner?”

“Yes”

gaze landing on the

question him, he immediately started looking for a

to the Raymond Corporation to continue working, but he couldn’t

room, pulled up the footage of Maja entering the

she entered the lobby, she was calm, not showing a hint of guilt, just like her.

lit a cigarette, even though the surveillance video was only a few minutes long, he replayed it hundreds of times.

returned, they were startled to see him, quickly

his eyes were a bit red. He

a few times, waving away the smoke

stood up and

surveillance room staff was still standing in the corridor, not daring to disturb him

until they were sure he had left

room was filled with the smell of smoke, there were several cigarette butts in the ashtray. No

they opened the door just now wasn’t the vibrant and

pulled down from his pedestal and brought back to

even in his melancholy,

tell anyone else about seeing the boss in the surveillance room, and they recognized the woman on the screen as the designer who used to be around

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