Chapter 1017

Not knowing who it was, Madeline turned on her phone’s flashlight and shone in the direction of the footsteps. “Who is it?”

Madeline asked, only to have the floor-to-ceiling windows behind her explode. The glass shattered everywhere.

She shouted reflexively and heard the sound of glass exploding again.

“Watch out!” A man’s worried tone sounded by her ear.

Madeline did not have the chance to take a look at the person when she found herself being pulled into a warm and strong embrace. The musky scent of ebony infiltrated her nostrils.

While it was not a familiar scent, Madeline did not find the scent especially new.

The sounds of explosion only stopped after a while.

However, the building’s lights remained switched off.

“Are you alright, Eveline?”

Only then did Eveline realize it was Ryan.

floor-to-ceiling windows. They were on the 28th floor, so to have

windows suddenly shatter for no reason? Not to

bleeding, it must’ve been the glass.” Ryan’s voice

phone, Madeline realized that there was a bleeding wound on

then made his way toward the first-aid kit and returned quickly after. “Let’s stop the bleeding first. I’ll clean and

his palm was warm as he held Madeline’s hand and began to treat the wound with

frowned at the pain. She made no sound, but Ryan seemed to have realized it anyway

“The way you work reminds me of

before replying, “I took a few medical lessons when

wound was dressed just as

for the next few days. Let’s get you downstairs. It doesn’t

Madeline turned around to

her back. “I’ll

stared at the glass shards all over the floor as

go, Ryan. It doesn’t feel very safe

with her purse in hand,

on one of the glass shards. In her heels, she felt herself slip at the

to hold Madeline’s shoulder, steadying her swaying

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