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

you and

Maja didn’t respond, lan

fallen asleep, but she was having a nightmare.

the baby’s body in

in a

ceiling, taking deep breaths.

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

had the nightmare because the forced abortion had put too

never expected her dignity to be trampled on

would always

inflicted had been seared

when she saw the message from lan, she didn’t reply. Instead, she got up, poured herself a

checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and

from her, which

the other hand, was engrossed

the surveillance she had

night, there had been no issues with the surveillance. It seemed like no one had entered her room in the past few

art supplies, so she

the morning, and there weren’t many pedestrians on the

had just sent a message to the property management to inquire about the situation

her vision.

a tall

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