Chapter 1005

“Let me tell you something,” he began, his voice filled with mischief. Whenever I was out with these buddies of mine, lan would never answer my calls. He would just hang up on me. But recently, because of all the ruckus in the Raymond family, he decided to pick up the phone. But I can bet you, he won’t show up here. He’ll call in less than a minute.”

No sooner had he voiced this prediction than his phone began to ring. It was indeed lan calling.

Ryan didn’t pick up. Instead, he bumped his shoulder against Maja’s in a friendly nudge.

“See, he never calls me first. But now, he’s panicking.”

Ryan then hung up on lan right in front of Maja.

But in less than a few seconds, lan called again.

Just like Ryan had said, lan was indeed panicking.

Ryan kept hanging up, but this time, lan sent him a video call request.

Ryan nearly dropped his glass of whisky. He knew lan was desperate, but he didn’t expect him to be this desperate.

Ryan was a bit scared now, worried about what might happen when lan eventually showed up.

He quickly turned to Maja.

decides to mess with me, you’ve got to help me out, Maja. I’m doing all this for you. To show you how much my cousin cares about you. If he didn’t like you, why would he go this far? I’ve heard he’s in a meeting right now. I guess he

believe this. So, Ryan handed her his

don’t believe me, call Jeff. Ask him

make the call, afraid that her hopes might be too high, leading to disappointment later. That would be embarrassing.

Ryan dialed Jeff’s number for

to take the phone and ask, “Jeff, what’s lan up to?”

waiting inside the conference room. He replied softly, “He’s at a meeting, but he’s

to call lan first, and when he didn’t pick up, she decided to call him.

was indeed in

of joy surged in Maja’s heart. She asked softly, “Is it an important meeting?”

Corporation’s executives have left, and a lot of new people have been promoted. This is the president’s first meeting

at Ryan, whose phone was still

scared of how persistently lan

so frightened that he didn’t dare to pick

was considering throwing his phone in the trash and running

ringing for so long. Why haven’t you answered it yet? It’s going to

Ryan turned off the phone.

ended the conversation with Jeff. After hanging up, she felt a pat on her shoulder

cousin will be here soon. Wait for him in the booth. I’m going to hide in the bathroom for a while. When you guys

be that terrifying, can

was sweeter when she asked this.

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