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.

Maja was his

and your

respond, lan

had already fallen asleep, but she was having

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

in a cold sweat.

the ceiling,

the early stages of pregnancy, when the baby hadn’t fully formed in her womb

because the forced abortion had put too much

but she never expected her dignity to be trampled on like

would always remember this.

pain he inflicted had been seared deeply into her heart, like

she didn’t reply. Instead, she got up, poured herself a

to fall–back asleep. So, she started checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and reviewed some

a reply from her, which left him feeling restless.

was engrossed

she checked the surveillance she

with the surveillance. It seemed like no one had entered her room

pick up some art supplies, so she

morning, and there

sent a message to the property management to inquire about the situation when her

her vision.

tall man holding a

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