Chapter 514

After hanging up the phone, lan felt like the pile of documents in front of him had lost all meaning.

The thought of Penny being with another man tonight was more than he could bear.

Back at the hotel, lan lay on the bed, still able to smell her lingering scent on the sheets. The fragrance seemed to permeate every pore of his body from all directions.

lan couldn’t sleep. He got up in his pajamas and lit a cigarette by the floor–to–ceiling window.

The window in the corner was open, and the breeze from outside caused his hair to quiver slightly.

He held the cigarette between his fingers, feeling as though the wind carried her scent with it.

He remembered pressing her against this window; her fearful yet reliant look stirred something in him,

lan’s gaze turned intense. Originally, he had the cigarette lightly clamped in his mouth, but now he bit down hard, as if to suppress the excitement coursing through his body. He took out his phone and sent a message to Maja.

“Are you asleep?”

lan was a very low–key person. He never shared his life on social media and rarely liked others‘ posts.

He also seldom initiated a chat with anyone late at night, let alone with a woman.

was

and your husband doing?”

Maja didn’t respond, lan

already fallen asleep, but she

the baby’s body in the hospital trash can, and of a tiny

in a cold

ceiling, taking deep

She knew the operation could only be done in the early stages of

nightmare because the forced abortion had put too much

never expected her dignity to be trampled on like

would always remember

the point of love, but the pain he inflicted had been seared deeply

she got up, poured herself a glass of water, and after

started checking the progress of

didn’t receive a reply from her, which left him feeling restless.

was engrossed in

the surveillance she had installed at the

issues with the surveillance. It seemed like no

needed to pick up some art supplies, so she drove to

and there weren’t many

to the property management to inquire about the situation when her

her vision.

tall man holding a baseball bat approaching her.

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