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

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!

done something great in her past life, to be offered

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

I accidentally broke a bowl

all along, picking up the broken pieces of

the fuse box

on our toes around

was barely a whisper as

his brows and let

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

reflex.

her, did he realize he had been holding on for a

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

“Got it.”

ever. Then he walked

stood still, listening as his footsteps faded away and finally let

was sure he had gone upstairs, did

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

but all Maja felt was a

opposed to her identity, there was no way he would agree to go

felt that she

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

to tell her that lan had left, did she

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