Chapter 737

Facing his accusations, Maja was at a loss for words.

She leaned against the wall, feeling absolutely wiped out. But she still had to head to where Lillian stashed her stuff to search for that jellyfish–shaped seal. Seemed like this crowd was hell–bent on finding it. The thing seemed to be pretty damn important.

And she had a hunch that the days ahead would be anything but quiet.

After all, people had been showing up at her doorstep already.

She opened her mouth and finally managed, “I’m beat. I need a breather.”

With that, she turned to leave.

lan quietly fell in step behind her, and when he saw her trying to hail a cab, he yanked her into his own car instead.

Maja ended up in his arms, and he held her tight, not letting her squirm away.

“Penny, are you mad at me?“;

lan couldn’t make heads or tails of her complicated emotions, so he had no clue what Maja was feeling right now.

Maja decided to shut her eyes.

lan planted a soft kiss on her lips, and her eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly’s wings at the touch.

made his heart go’all

back to Greenfield later.”

right now, and there could still

kept her lips sealed and just silently slid into the driver’s

stop her, watching as she maneuvered the car onto

got out of the car, she quickly entered Daly Elston’s house

she picked up a chair from

but she beat him to it, “Mr. Raymond, wait outside for me.”

he did steal a glance at her, digging under the stove.

enough, she found a small iron box about the size of

for a quick peek, and there it was the

beautiful jellyfish carved at the top of

she was a kid, she never thought

the carving was top–notch.

hell was this seal

big bucks to get their hands

in her palm, then headed out to find

casually smoking a cigarette. Even with his clothes

didn’t ask Maja what she found; just opened the passenger door for her

initially wanting to hand it over to lan for him

Lillian’s last wishes, she decided

truth had Lillian hidden from

know that Maja wasn’t her biological

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