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 his

and your husband doing?”

Maja didn’t respond, lan

fallen asleep, but she was having a nightmare.

of the child that was forcefully taken from her, of the baby’s body in the hospital trash can,

up in a cold sweat.

ceiling, taking

knew the operation could only be done in the early stages of pregnancy, when

the forced abortion

the Raymond family didn’t like her, but she never expected her dignity to be trampled

always remember this.

hadn’t reached the point of love, but the pain he inflicted had been seared deeply into her heart, like a nail hammered

from lan, she didn’t reply. Instead, she got up, poured herself a glass of water, and

So, she started checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and

reply from her, which left him

on the other hand, was engrossed in her work until

the surveillance she had installed at the RosenGarden house.

It seemed like no one had entered her room in the past

some art supplies, so

in the morning, and there weren’t many pedestrians on the road.

the situation when her car

her vision.

the ensuing chaos, she saw a tall man holding a baseball bat approaching

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