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.

to bed, wanting to confess but fearing that he would immediately break

stronger when they had

feared losing it, and everyone

close, closing

at half past six, we can still sleep

Elsewhere.

returned, everyone was waiting to see

indeed, at nine in the morning, Judith had arrived at the Raymond Corporation, her hand still carrying a lunch box, apparently here to

with the utmost

the CEO hasn’t arrived

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already nine, and lan, a workaholic, hadn’t

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

a gray suit, lan was conversing with

about to approach, she saw another person walking in

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

have 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 drop him

morning at Greenfield Gardens, she had held a brief

past eight once my meeting ends, you’ll be late for

fine, I’ll wait for you.”

sitting beside her

sweetness and helplessness, and the man was indeed quite

now, as he had accidentally left his documents in her

followed him all the way to the lobby on the first

“lan.”

lighting up. Without considering the surrounding gazes,

overtime at

funny, “You left

on his face vanished, replaced

“Oh.”

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

noticed the lunch box in Judith’s hand

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