Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Pearl crossed her arms and stared at him as she smiled.

Richard replied gloomily, “Then I’ll deduct another half a month from your salary.” Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Clutching the box, she silently glared at him. She then turned to leave the office.

Abby spotted Pearl leaving Richard’s office with a giant gift box, and a wave of jealousy overcame her.

‘What a shameless b*

hing up her

At night, Pearl went to the washroom to change. Abby followed her into the washroom on the pretense

of touching up her makeup.

Abby, wearing a light pink dress that enhanced her adorable qualities, dropped her act and glanced at

Pearl. Her hatred grew worse. “I’m warning you, Pearl. Don’t dream of snatching Richard’s heart, or I wi

ll make you pay.”

Calmly, Pearl smoothed her bangs. “You have no say in what I want, do you?”

Her stubbornness made Abby want to rip to shreds. “I grew up with Rick. No one can get in between us

. You best stop or you’ll regret it.

Pearl shook her head. “Ha! He didn’t fall in love with you even though you two grew up together. How pi

tiful.”

“That’s nonsense!” Abby yelled angrily.

“Do you think he likes you even one bit?”

Abby had been avoiding this question as she was not bold enough to dwell on

Richard’s feelings out of fear it was not the answer she wanted to hear. But Richard had never been so

concerned about another woman before, and it suffocated Abby

“He’s just unsure about his feelings. He’ll never fall in love with you!”

Pearl uttered light–heartedly as she nodded, “We’ll see about that.”

After throwing her l*pstick to the floor in frustration, Abby left.

When Pearl opened the box to change into the dress, she found that someone had cut it up and ruined

Pearl frowned. “What bad luck.”

After waiting for some time and not spotting Pearl, Richard grew slightly uneasy. He wondered if someth

Suddenly, Abby appeared wearing a sweet smile when he was about to go look for Pearl.

“Are you waiting for someone, Rick?”

Richard nodded as he kept looking. Noticing his absent–minded look, envy ate at Abby.

“I bumped into Pearl earlier. She said she might be in the restroom for a while and told us to go ahead.”