Chapter 450


    and even a bit scared.


    The journey that usually took an hour, he managed to finish in just forty minutes. But he had barely


    covered any distance when he heard a noise behind


    him.


    It turned out that a massive boulder had rolled down and blocked the road. The way back was


    interrupted.


    Still, he didn’t stop. He continued driving towards Riverfield.


    Visibility was next to none on the road. He practically bulldozed his way through every obstacle until he


    reached the cottage. He spotted the car parked outside right away.


    He quickly got out of the car and knocked on the door of the other car.


    Maja was slumped over the steering wheel, clearly shaken.


    She had been left alone in the car in the midst of a tornado, with the wind battering against the


    windows and growing louder by the minute. “Penny!”


    Maja heard someone calling her name faintly. She quickly turned around and sawn–outside the


    window. She was so surprised, she could hardly believe her eyes. She hastily opened the car door.


    But before she could even speak, a gush of wind filled her mouth with sand.


    She was coughing nonstop.


    Once the heavy door was shut, the noise of the wind waspletely blocked out.


    Maja wasn’t used to such situations, so she kept coughing; her face even got dirty. When she wiped


    her face with a tissue, it came off covered in dust.


    Maja coughed for a minute and then suddenly remembered something. She quickly grabbedn’s arm,


    checked him over, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw he was alright.


    “Mr. Raymond, you’re really ying with fire.”


    “Do you think I came from the vi?”


    Maja did think so.


    Only then did Maja realize.


    Then she said, “Still, it’s too risky to go out in this kind of weather.”


    Before she could finish her sentence, he interrupted her, saying, “Oh, now you realize it’s risky?”


    Maja was silent for a while, then finally managed to say, “I was worried about you.”


    If anything happened to him, the Raymond family would definitely not let her off the hook.


    But now it wasn who was silent.


    He raised his eyebrows slightly, looking a bit ufortable, and pushed her away a bit, saying, “Go


    wash your face.”


    Maja nodded and quickly went to the faucet to wash off the dust on her face and rinse her mouth with


    clean water.


    After washing, she sat down on a chair nearby.


    “Mr. Raymond, you should also wash your face.”


    He went to the faucet and cleaned the dust off his face.


    But there were definitely no fresh clothes here. After all, this cottage was only recently cleaned up by


    the heads of Crystalbrook Valley.


    Before, it had only water and electricity.


    This 50–square–meter ce felt unusually warm in the middle of a tornado.


    After washing his face, he sat down on a chair and looked at Maja.


    Neither of them knew what to say, and outside the window, the sky had already changed, filled with


    dust and sand.


    Maja went to the window, breaking the awkward silence in the room.


    “This is my first time seeing a tornado.”


    outside.


    Maja turned around and saw a tree fall in the distance. Her face immediately turned serious.


    The tornado was much more violent than she had imagined. She thought she could just spend the


    night in the car, but if it weren’t forn bringing the keys and taking her inside, she might have been


    swept away by the wind at any moment.


    “Mr. Raymond, I’m d you’re here. I saw a tree get blown down outside, and I couldn’t see anything


    else.”


    The visibility was so poor that she could barely see the fallen tree.


    She didn’t dare to open the window, and she could still hear the sound of the wind and sand hitting the


    window.


    It was really rare for a tornado to hit this area.


    The cottage might be small, but it had been tested multiple times and had multiyered windows.


    Maja was scared. She closed anotheryer of the window and heardn say behind her, “Now you


    know to be scared? I don’t know what you were thinking when you drove out.”


    Maja turned red with embarrassment. She had made several calls ton, but no one answered. She


    saw the sky changing and was worried they would be stranded on the road.


    If anything happened ton in Crystalbrook Valley, not only would all the heads of Crystalbrook Valley


    be implicated, but she and the Pennyfeather family would definitely be med!


    But she couldn’t deny that when she turned around and saw him outside the window, she felt like her


    heart was filled with sand. With every beat, it rubbed against her chest, causing a ticklish, tingling


    sensation.