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

are you and your

Maja didn’t respond, lan sent another

already fallen asleep, but she was having a nightmare.

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

up in a cold sweat.

stared at the ceiling, taking deep breaths.

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

forced abortion had put too much

knew the Raymond family didn’t like her, but she never expected her

would always

inflicted had been seared deeply into her heart, like a nail hammered into a

herself a glass of

she started checking the progress of the Greenfield Gardens project and reviewed some documents

from her, which left him feeling

engrossed in her work until dawn.

the surveillance she

issues with the surveillance. It seemed like no one had entered her room in the past few days.

up some art supplies, so she drove to

the morning, and there weren’t

had just sent a message to the property management to inquire about the situation when her car was violently

her vision.

she saw a tall man

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