Chapter 1019

She suddenly reached out, wrapping her arms around his neck.

“lan.”

lan was still standing outside the car, unexpectedly embraced, and his heart softened.

“Maja, you’ve become much clingier since I returned.”

This fool.

Maja didn’t respond, simply releasing him in silence.

lan was left standing outside the car, the passenger door still open.

He cupped her face, gazing at her for a minute before bending down to plant a tender kiss on her lips.

“Maja, I’m just trying to trust you.”

His words left Maja frozen.

He kissed her lips again.

“When I hold you close, every cell in my body feels at ease. Now that we’re together, I should trust you, right? I don’t want any more mishaps.” He closed the car door, his eyes suddenly deep and intense.

“I don’t care whether you’ve seen your first love or not. From the moment you said you liked me, you must draw a line with him! I overlooked the last incident, but you’re not allowed to lie to me anymore.”

Maja was practically at a loss for words.

Closing the car door, lan moved to the driver’s seat and drove towards Greenfield Gardens.

It was already five in the morning, and they would have to get up in an hour.

Maja wás bathed in the bathtub, and despite the comfort she found in his care, the thought of the two nights with another man was a thorn in her heart, pricking her each time it surfaced.

she returned to bed, wanting to confess but fearing that he would

stronger when they had nothing to

something, they feared losing it, and everyone was the same.

held her close, closing his eyes.

at half past six, we can still sleep for an hour.”

Elsewhere.

everyone was waiting to see him and Judith flaunting their

arrived at the Raymond Corporation, her hand still carrying a lunch box, apparently here to

greeted her with the utmost

CEO

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It was already nine, and lan, a workaholic, hadn’t yet arrived at the office.

inquire, she saw a man walking through the revolving glass door. It was lan.

gray suit, lan was

and just as she was about to approach, she saw another

planned to go to her own company, but lan had insisted on bringing her

been the one to drop her off at her company, but he had a mind of his own, clinging to her since breakfast, asking her to

had held a brief online meeting, unable to resist his

past eight once my meeting ends,

I’ll wait for

seemed satisfied, sitting beside her without further interruption.

and helplessness, and the

up with him now, as he had accidentally left his documents in

him all the way to the lobby on the first floor before calling out to

“lan.”

the

to work overtime at

found it funny, “You left your

face vanished, replaced by an air of sophistication.

“Oh.”

many eyes on them, and not far away stood Judith, her gaze dark and resentful,

the lunch box in Judith’s hand and felt

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