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.

at the broken floor-to-ceiling windows. They were on the 28th floor, so to have the windows broken and the evening wind blowing violently inside, it

would the windows suddenly shatter for no reason? Not to mention that

glass.” Ryan’s voice brought Madeline out

realized that there was a bleeding wound on the back of

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

warm as he held Madeline’s hand and began

to have realized it anyway and his touch grew gentler. “I’ll

you work reminds me of

before replying, “I took a

just as

your wound for the next few days. Let’s get you downstairs.

you.” Madeline turned around to take her bag from the

back. “I’ll

glass shards all over the floor

doesn’t feel very

her purse in hand, he took his

step on one of the glass shards. In her

immediately reached out to hold Madeline’s shoulder, steadying

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