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, so to have the windows broken and the evening wind blowing violently inside, it was

the windows suddenly shatter for no reason? Not to mention that these were hardly normal

been the glass.” Ryan’s voice brought Madeline out of her wandering

there was a bleeding wound on the back of

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

gentle while his palm was warm as he held Madeline’s hand

pain. She made no sound, but Ryan seemed to have realized it anyway and his touch grew gentler.

and asked curiously, “The way you work reminds me of a

took

wound was dressed just as he finished

few days. Let’s get you downstairs. It doesn’t seem

turned around to take her bag

back. “I’ll

made his way over and stared at the glass shards all over the floor

doesn’t feel very

Madeline with her purse in hand, he took his phone to

her way to follow, only to accidentally step on one of the glass shards. In her heels,

to hold Madeline’s shoulder, steadying her

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