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.

his fancy car, Maja would

arriving in Crystalbrook Valley, he swapped cars with the locals.

would

to call her. Now he just had to drive there too, pretend it was a

watched Maja’s car disappear from sight before

town. Fearful of being discovered by Maja, he drove around town and

black; he couldn’t see the school’s

about time, he drove back to Riverside Haven and quietly switched back to his own

led to his room by the

anyone

mean Maja?”

with Maja several times, and with the Elston

sudden tightness in his chest.

yours. If you don’t

didn’t like women too close to him.

no

but

he recalled their first

quietly,

then, he was mesmerized by the beauty of the painting; she seemed to be

a stir, but chalked it up to admiration for her painting skills, a subtle resonance.

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