Chapter 808

Maja shouldn’t have to deal with all this crap. She was trying to understand: where did her uncle and aunt go wrong? They’ve never left Crystalbrook Valley, always influenced by their surroundings.

They lived in a culture where boys were favored over girls, so naturally they followed suit. So when they found out Olivia was carrying a boy, their decision made sense to them.

It’s not that they were heartless; their worldview was just that narrow.

Furious, Maja cut ties with everyone and never thought their next encounter would be like this.

Four lonely graves sat there in silence, and she sat there until night fell. Only then did she get up, rub her numb legs, and drive away.

But just as she was about to open the car door, she saw another car parked not far away, just a run–of–the–mill car.

Who would come here at this hour?

She didn’t give it a second thought and got into her own car.

In the other car, lan sat.

The car window was cracked open, letting in the mountain wind.

Cigarette butts lay scattered under the window; clearly, he had been waiting for a while.

fancy car, Maja would have known

he swapped

and Maja would probably head

arranged for the Riverside Haven staff to call her. Now he just had to drive there too, pretend it was a

watched Maja’s car disappear from sight before slowly pressing

to town. Fearful of being discovered by Maja, he drove around town and heard Maja spent her last year of high school here, so he went

couldn’t see the school’s

back to Riverside Haven and quietly switched back to his own

he was led to

“Did anyone else check

you mean Maja?”

the Elston family’s incident, her name

tightness in

to yours.

Mr. Raymond didn’t like women too close to him.

there’s no need to

was casual, but his pace

his room, he recalled their first

was painting on the wall quietly, and he couldn’t

the beauty of the painting; she seemed to

it up

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