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.

doing though, the phone had simply run out of battery

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 depleted.

What a coincidence!

she had done something great in her past life, to be offered such a turn of events at

her scent was even more familiar, but for the life of him, he couldn’t remember where he

and I accidentally broke a bowl earlier, so I got a bit

had been crouching there all along, picking up the broken pieces of the bowl.

know where the fuse box

we should always be on our toes around you,

voice was barely a whisper as she said this, sounding genuinely

furrowed his brows and let go of

contact made him uncomfortable.

reflex.

releasing her, did he realize he

his grandfather pushing him so hard was starting

“Got it.”

he walked out, “It’s dark in here, be

his footsteps faded away and

had gone upstairs,

that it was Neil Pennyfeather who had been calling. He wanted her to bring lan to the Pennyfeather

but all

her identity, there was no way he would agree to

and felt that she just couldn’t stay in Rosewood Manor any longer.

leave the house, waiting for

that lan had left, did she breathe a

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