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.

flowers, unsure of what to

hospital 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

went to Judith’s room, and when he saw

Raymond Corporation building, he just

a good

Ms. Sanders out for dinner?”

“Yes”

his gaze landing

didn’t dare to question him, he

continue working, but he couldn’t seem to concentrate.

a while, he went to the Raymond Corporation’s surveillance room, pulled up the footage of

calm, not showing a hint of

only a few minutes long, he replayed it hundreds

returned, they were startled to see him, quickly closing the

were a bit red. He

the time he lit his fifth cigarette, he finally coughed a few times, waving away the smoke in front of him.

and left the

was still standing in the corridor, not daring to

until they were sure he had

cigarette butts in the ashtray. No one

they saw when they opened the door just

pulled down from his pedestal and brought back to reality

melancholy, lan seemed

staff didn’t dare to tell anyone else about seeing the boss in the surveillance room, and they recognized the woman on the screen as the designer who used to be around the boss

rich people sometimes seemed as

the cigarette butts from the ashtray into the trash, and turned

stared blankly at the documents in front of him.

documents seemed like distorted tadpoles,

came in, he wanted to ask about Maja.

she

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