Dear Ex-wife, Marry Me novel Chapter 161

Maja's phone was tucked securely in her pocket, yet she had no idea who was calling her that night. Even though she had silenced her phone, the calls kept rolling in, one after the other.

The ringing seemed incessant, as if it wouldn't stop until she picked up.

Things had escalated to the point where Maja felt cornered. She was already contemplating how she'd explain herself once Ian finally recognized her.

It was such a night. The rain was roaring outside and the only sound inside was the ringing of her phone.

Maja bowed her head, trying to fish her phone out of her pocket.

"Mr. Raymond, actually I..."

Before she could finish her sentence, a thunderclap echoed from outside the window, but with no accompanying flash of lightning, the room remained in darkness.

Due to the sudden burst of thunder, Ian missed the unique change in her voice.

Otherwise, he would have recognized immediately, that this was his designer.

At this moment, however, he couldn't hear anything over the sudden thunder and the ringing phone.

Maja had prepared herself to give up and had even thought about how she would apologize.

But the moment she pulled her phone out of her pocket, it powered down completely.

It wasn't her doing though, the phone had simply run out of battery and shut off.

She had been in a rush when she left the house tonight and had spent the entire previous night at the hospital. Her phone hadn't had a chance to be charged and after all the incessant ringing, the battery was finally depleted.

What a coincidence!

She almost started to wonder if she had done something great in her past life, to be offered such a turn of events at this point.

Ian also noticed the phone had shut down. They were close now, her scent was even more familiar, but for the life of him, he couldn't remember where he had met her before.

"Mr. Raymond, I'm new here and I accidentally broke a bowl earlier, so I got a bit flustered."

So, she had been crouching there all along, picking up the broken pieces of the bowl.

So, she didn't know where the fuse box was because she was new here.

"Maria said we should always be on our toes around you, we're all scared of messing up."

Her voice was barely a whisper as she said this, sounding genuinely scared.

Ian furrowed his brows and let go of her wrist.

He wasn't used to being close with women, physical contact made him uncomfortable. He had only grabbed her wrist out of reflex.

Only after releasing her, did he realize he had been holding on for a minute.