Chapter 161

Maja’s phone was tucked securely in her pocket, yet she had no idea who was calling her that night. Even though she had silenced her phone, the calls kept rolling in, one after the other.

The ringing seemed incessant, as if it wouldn’t stop until she picked up.

Things had escalated to the point where Maja felt cornered. She was already contemplating how she’d explain herself once lan finally recognized her.

It was such a night. The rain was roaring outside and the only sound inside was the ringing of her phone.

Maja bowed her head, trying to fish her phone out of her pocket.

“Mr. Raymond, actually I…”

Before she could finish her sentence, a thunderclap echoed from outside the window, but with no accompanying flash of lightning, the room remained in darkness.

Due to the sudden burst of thunder, lan missed the unique change in her voice.

Otherwise, he would have recognized immediately, that this was his designer.

At this moment, however, he couldn’t hear anything over the sudden thunder and the ringing phone.

Maja had prepared herself to give up and had even thought about how she would apologize.

But the moment she pulled her phone out of her pocket, it powered down completely.

though, the phone had simply run out of

when she left the house tonight and had spent the entire previous night at the hospital. Her phone hadn’t. -had a chance to be charged and after all the incessant ringing, the battery was finally

What a coincidence!

in her past life, to be offered such a turn of events at this point.

They were close now, her scent was even more

a bowl earlier, so I got a bit

there all along, picking up

didn’t know where the fuse box

toes

barely a whisper as she said this, sounding genuinely scared.

brows and let go of

being close with women, physical contact made him uncomfortable. He had only

reflex.

after releasing her, did he realize he had been holding on for a minute.

stress from his grandfather pushing him so hard was starting to get

“Got it.”

as indifferent as ever. Then he walked out, “It’s dark in here, be careful.”

footsteps faded away and finally

she was sure he had gone upstairs,

she plugged her phone in to charge and saw that it was Neil Pennyfeather who

requested before, but

extremely opposed to her identity, there was no

now and felt that she just

house, waiting

that lan had left, did she breathe a sigh of

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