Chapter 1271

The persona lan was impersonating was not a prominent figure within the villa, his daily duties were simply menial tasks.

However, this man was no weakling, or he wouldn’t have been chosen

He went to the kitchen to fetch the meal that the chef had prepared, and quietly walked up to the door

The bodyguard opened the door, “What are you waiting for? Get in there!

The room was dark, only lit faintly by the hallway light, revealing a woman sitting by the window

lan’s grip on the meal tray tightened, an overwhelming urge to demolish the entire villa bubbling within him.

“Hold on”

One of the guards squinted at his retreating figure, his eyebrows knitting together

*Clown, did you grow taller?

lan remained silent, the other bodyguard rolling his eyes. You must be seeing things from staying up all night on guard duty”

lan didn’t pay them any mind striding into the room and shutting the door behind him.

With the door closed the room plunged into total darkness.

He flicked the light switch on, finally laying eyes on Maja sitting by the window

He slowly approached, placing the meal tray on the table next to her

his footsteps but

she furrowed her brows

a familiar scent, somewhat

thought with a self–deprecating smile. How

the meal tray, lan remained standing

left immediately and Maja was waiting for

the sound of him

ask him why he hadn’t left yet, but her voice failed her, so she resorted to tapping lightly on the table to communicate

lan didn’t understand the message conveyed by the rhythmic tapping, until he saw Maja

started to panic, fearing that someone from the Sanders family had snuck in, or that something had been added to her food.

happen this time? Last time, she lost her

carefully feeling her way along the wall, trying to

his shoulders

door, carefully deadbolting

was looking for him, but what puzzled him was why she

only mowing after ten minutes, when Maja almost bumped

was chained to the bedside table, unable to

bumped her head against it, causing

instinctively rubbed her forehead her face going

helping her to her feet.

was okay but remembering his voice he

are

recognize him immediately, shaking her head

intentions. I’ll leave as soon as

of any malice from him,

slowly fell her way back to where she

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