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.

his heart go’all

back to

dicey right now, and there could

and just silently slid into the driver’s seat.

stop her, watching as she maneuvered the car onto a

she quickly entered

a chair from

beat him to it, “Mr. Raymond, wait

he did steal a glance at her, digging under

she found a small iron box about the size of

opened it for a quick peek, and there it was

was a beautiful jellyfish carved at the top of the

she never thought much of it.

the carving was top–notch.

was this seal

were the kidnappers willing to fork out big

it tight in her palm, then headed out to find

by then, and lan was leaning against the car, casually smoking a cigarette. Even with his clothes wrinkled, he still looked damn

what she found; just opened the passenger door for her when he saw

palm–sized iron box, initially wanting to hand it over to

remembering Lillian’s last wishes, she decided

hidden from her all those years?

Lillian even know that Maja wasn’t her

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