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.

held the flowers, unsure of what

of a close business associate. The flowers were actually from the associate, Jeff had just brought them along, not expecting to

Judith’s room, and when he saw lan,

had run into her at the Raymond Corporation building, he

find a good

taking Ms. Sanders out for dinner?”

“Yes”

were pressed into a thin line, his gaze landing on the piece of

dare to question him, he immediately

returned to the Raymond Corporation to continue working, but he couldn’t seem to concentrate.

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

lobby, she was calm, not showing a hint

was only a few minutes long, he replayed it hundreds of times.

to see him,

his eyes were a bit red. He just stared at the video,

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

stood up and left

staff was still standing in the corridor, not

until they were sure he had left that

room was filled with the smell of smoke, there were several cigarette butts in the ashtray. No one was supposed

saw when they opened the door just now wasn’t

if hed been pulled down from his pedestal and brought back

in his melancholy,

room, and they

these rich people sometimes

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

his office, he stared blankly at the documents in front of him.

documents seemed like distorted tadpoles,

came in, he wanted to ask

Pennyfeather, she

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