Chapter 1119

lan hadn’t expected Judith to suddenly embrace him. He’d just been about to push her away when she let go, tilting her head back to talk to him.

His mind was somewhat foggy, his fingertips still absent–mindedly touching the piece of fabric from before.

After a while, he lowered his hand, hearing Judith ask, “lan, do you want to grab dinner with me tonight?”

lan averted his gaze, an image of Maja flashed in his mind, but he quickly discarded it.

“Sure.”

Judith’s gaze passed over him, landing on Maja in the distance, her expression full of challenge.

“Sounds good. You can choose the restaurant. Just let me know where”

Maja knew Judith was just trying to provoke her, and it was working, she was genuinely irritated.

She turned around, retreating back to the elevator

As the elevator doors closed, she leaned against the back wall, feeling exhausted.

When she reached the lobby on the first floor, she ran into Jeff.

Jeff was holding a bouquet of flowers, looking somewhat awkward when he saw her.

“Ms. Pennyfeather”

Maja knew the flowers weren’t for her. They must be for Judith.

She managed a small smile, nodding, and then walked away.

unsure

floor, he gave the flowers to another woman in a different room, the wife of a close business associate. The flowers were actually from the associate, Jeff had just brought them along, not expecting to run into Maja.

when he saw lan, he said, “I ran

into her at the Raymond Corporation building, he just nodded, his

good

you taking Ms. Sanders out

“Yes”

lips were pressed into a thin line, his gaze landing on the piece of fabric from before.

dare to question him, he immediately started looking for

Raymond Corporation to continue working, but

surveillance room, pulled up the footage of Maja entering the

the moment she entered the lobby, she was calm, not showing

even though the surveillance video was only a few

room staff returned, they were startled to see him, quickly closing the door and leaving.

were a bit red. He just stared at the video, watching it over and over again.

his fifth cigarette, he finally coughed a few times, waving away the smoke in front

up and left the

surveillance room staff was still standing in the corridor, not daring to disturb him

he had left

cigarette butts in the ashtray. No one was supposed to smoke in this room, but the staff didn’t

opened the

as if hed been pulled down from

even in his melancholy, lan

dare to tell anyone else about seeing the boss in the surveillance room, and they recognized the woman on the

sometimes seemed as

ashtray into the trash, and turned off

returned to his office, he stared blankly at the documents in front of

distorted tadpoles, he

in, he wanted to

she

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