Chapter 1038

Maja touched her forehead, realizing the fever had indeed subsided.

“Zoey, are you sure you don’t want to stay home and rest? I’m a businessman, and I really need you to come back to the office with me, but work comes second to your health.”

“Mr. Pennyfeather, I’m fine now.”

Seeing she was insistent, Maja dropped the subject, and they hurried off to the office.

In the following week, Maja barely returned home. The few times she did, she saw lan waiting for her at their shared townhouse, Rosewood Manor

She was too busy, however. She’d grab a few clothes, peck him on the cheek, and leave him to go to sleep alone.

lan went from understanding to silence after being persistently neglected for a week.

The last time she returned to Rosewood Manor, lan wasn’t there.

She was too swamped to look for him, and when she tried calling him, he didn’t pick up.

She considered driving to his office at Raymond Corporation, but her own executives phoned her to hurry back for a meeting. Nowadays, she only had half an hour of free time each day, the bare minimum to grab a bite.

By the time she reflected on her relationship

to call Jeff

lan, they hadn’t been in touch

when the company receptionist called

Pennyfeather, your biological parents have come to the office. They’d

thought she had

Sheard.

sounded

they have your

you like to

never done a thorough investigation because she had accepted Lillian as her mother and feared the truth about

her birth parents had shown

the reception. There, she

approached her and called out,

a nearby sofa. “Let’s talk over there.”

woman, Clara, nodded to her partner,

they presented her with a DNA test result.

that our daughter

explained, her voice soft.

asked, “What

all the way

reported our daughter stolen years ago, and

been Phelps, who

DNA test done

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