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”

her. They

nodding, and then walked away.

flowers, unsure of what

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

saw lan, he said, “I ran into

the Raymond Corporation building, he just nodded,

find a good

taking Ms. Sanders out for dinner?”

“Yes”

thin line, his gaze

to question him, he immediately started looking for

Corporation to continue working, but he couldn’t seem to concentrate.

pulled up

was calm, not

even though the surveillance video was only a few minutes long, he replayed it

the surveillance room staff returned, they were startled to

a bit red. He just stared at the video, watching it over

lit his fifth cigarette, he finally coughed a few times, waving away the smoke in

up and left the room.

still standing in

until they were sure he had left that they entered the

filled with the smell of smoke, there were several cigarette butts in the ashtray. No one was supposed to smoke in this room, but the staff

just thought that the man they saw when they opened the door just

been pulled down from his pedestal and brought back to

even in his melancholy, lan

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

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