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.

stared 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 was

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

must’ve been the glass.” Ryan’s voice brought Madeline

the light from her phone, Madeline realized that there was a bleeding wound on the

made his way toward the first-aid kit and returned quickly after.

he

sound, but Ryan seemed to have realized it

asked curiously, “The way you work reminds me of a doctor. Did you learn

moment before replying, “I took a few medical lessons

just as he finished

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

turned around to

pulled her back. “I’ll

way over and stared at the glass shards all over the floor as he

go, Ryan. It doesn’t feel very safe

purse in hand, he took his

of the glass shards. In her heels,

immediately reached out to hold Madeline’s shoulder,

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