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 battery and shut

rush when she left the house tonight and had spent the entire previous night at the hospital. Her phone hadn’t. -had a

What a coincidence!

great in her past life, to be offered such

close now, her scent was even more familiar, but for the

broke a bowl earlier, so

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

box was

be on our toes around you, we’re all scared of messing

whisper as she said this, sounding genuinely scared.

and let

women, physical contact made him uncomfortable. He had

reflex.

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

the stress from his grandfather pushing him so

“Got it.”

was as indifferent as ever. Then he walked out, “It’s

listening as his footsteps faded away and finally let out a sigh of

she was sure he had gone upstairs, did she slowly make her way up.

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

before, but all Maja felt was a

identity, there was no

felt that

house, waiting for

that lan had

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