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

you and your husband doing?”

Maja didn’t respond, lan sent

but she was having a nightmare.

taken from her, of the baby’s body in the hospital trash can, and of

up in a

ceiling, taking

knew the operation could only be done in the early stages of pregnancy, when the baby hadn’t fully formed

the forced abortion had put too much pressure

never expected her dignity to be trampled on

would always

lan hadn’t reached the point of love, but the pain he inflicted

lan, she didn’t reply. Instead, she got up, poured herself a glass of water, and after drinking it, felt slightly calmer. Then she went

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

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

on the other hand, was engrossed in

the surveillance she had installed at the

the surveillance. It seemed like no

pick up some art supplies, so she drove

seven in the morning, and there weren’t

about the situation when her car was violently hit.

her vision.

saw a tall man holding a baseball bat

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