Chapter 21 A Small World

Peacock felt that the man before her was the devil incarnate. One glare from him was enough to kill somebody.

In less than a minute, Nathaniel’s hands were covered in red spots, and his heart rate started speeding up uncontrollably.

It seemed that his allergic reaction this time was worse than the last.

He clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. Christina’

The first thing that Sebastian saw when he arrived at the hospital was Nathaniel receiving an IV drip. The latter had an icy look on his face as if the world owed him a great debt, which made Sebastian gulp

in fear.

He began. “Mr. Hadley, Mrs. Hadley has not returned to the mansion, nor has she gone to the Steele residence. We haven’t managed to locate her as of-

Before Sebastian could even finish his words, a wave of rage surged through Nathaniel, and he swept all the glasses on the table to the ground.

The cacophony of glass shattering and water splashing duly expressed the turmoil of displeasure he was feeling.

He growled. “Keep searching!

“Yes, Mr. Hadley.” Sebastian wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead and got to work immediately.

I can’t believe Mrs Hadley just up and left after poking the bear, leaving us to clean up her mess! What a pitiful life I’m living!

While Nathaniel was suffering in the hospital. Christina was leisurely drawing a design draft in her university dorm. She couldn’t help but admit that she felt rather happy about not seeing Nathaniel for the past few days,

I’m sure a mighty CEO like him will lose interest in me soon enough.

With graduation just around the corner, Christina decided to devote all her energy to her major.

After studying fashion design for four years, she had a solid foundation.

opening the webpage, she filled in her information and design drawings before sending them to the industry’s most famous clothing

reckoned a big company like that would take about a week to get back to

the bar had fallen through, she had used her spare time and found a part-time job as a saleswoman at a luxury

at the time, she quickly changed into her work uniform and prepared herself for work. As most luxury stores have high requirements for their clerks, it was necessary for her to tie up her

arrived at the store, the store manager briefed her on what she should

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the fact that luxury stores provide high-end services, the place was never busy most of the time, as they treated customers who were dressed normally with

norm when it

don’t I show you some of our newest collection?” The enthusiastic voice of a salesgirl echoed

items, turned her head and saw

world. I can’t believe I

Christina whipped her

task

lack of new items, when

that the wife of the great Mr. Hadley is working as a saleswoman? It seems that Nathaniel doesn’t really care about her, huh? He’s probably only putting on a show for Mrs. Hadley before. But I guess that makes sense. After all, why would the heir of Hadley Corporation fall

mind, Xandra walked toward Christina and said

answered without delay, “She’s new here, so she’s not used to how things work here yet.

her off, “I want her

idea what relationship Christina and Xandra shared and was worried that the former

got to her feet calmly and said. “Feel free to

around and swept her gaze around the store, trying to come up with a way

to try on this

than a dozen different types of heels on the rack, a salesperson beside Christina tried to help her out but was discouraged from doing so after receiving

way to the warehouse to look

of heels.

heart and she felt as if

on each pair

was the duty of a salesperson to help their customer try on shoes, those who were present could clearly tell that Xandra was deliberately making

with each other? Is it because Christina is beautiful? I guess it’s true when they say it’s hard

didn’t make a single protest as she took the heels out for Xandra to try on. It was as if her calm demeanor would persist no matter how much trouble the latter

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