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 and

in a rush 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

What a coincidence!

wonder if she had done something great in her past

also noticed the phone had shut down. They were close now, her scent was even more familiar, but for the life of him, he couldn’t remember where he had

new here and I accidentally broke a bowl

she had been crouching there all along, picking up the

she didn’t know where the fuse box was because she was

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

as she

and let go of her

being close with women, physical contact made

reflex.

he had been holding on for a minute.

rubbed his forehead, wondering if the stress from his grandfather pushing him so hard was starting to get to

“Got it.”

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

his footsteps faded away and finally let out

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

Neil Pennyfeather who had been calling. He wanted her

he had requested before, but

was no way he would agree to go to her

nerve–wracking moment with lan just now and felt that she just couldn’t stay in Rosewood Manor any

morning, she didn’t leave the house, waiting for

that lan had left, did she breathe a sigh of

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255