When I woke up at night, Natalie had already come back. Her eyes widened in shock upon seeing me walk out of my room.

“Why are you back so early today? Don’t you have to work overtime?”

I stretched and yawned while answering her. “I took the day off today.”

“You took the day off? Holy sh*t. Is the sun rising from the west or something?”

Natalie gaped at me in utter disbelief.

I hummed in confirmation but remained otherwise silent. Noticing the gloomy look on my face, Natalie started eyeing me suspiciously.

“You didn’t come home last night. Where’d you go?”

My expression stiffened upon hearing Natalie’s question, and I replied somewhat guiltily, “I was working overtime.”

“Working overtime? Why are you lying? Who the hell works overtime for the entire night? Tell me the truth. Did you…” Natalie trailed off and raised her brows meaningfully.

Although she didn’t finish her sentence, her question was very obvious.

My face instantly flushed red when Natalie figured out what I had done the previous night. I began fidgeting on the spot, unable to meet Natalie’s eyes because of the guilt that I was feeling.

“What on earth are you thinking about? I really was working overtime. I’m hungry. Let’s eat now.”

The guilt in my voice couldn’t be mistaken. With that, I ignored Natalie and quickly went to set up the table.

smart for her own good. If Michael started looking for me too frequently, I wouldn’t be able to keep our relationship a secret from Natalie anymore. I couldn’t help but worry if she would look down on me if she found out

whipped her head up and looked me in the eye, asking me with a solemn expression, “Anna, why do I have the

in my eyes

asking this all

lately, and you’re working overtime every night. You’re acting weird, Anna. Besides, it doesn’t make sense that such a large company like Joyful Success would need their employees to

down her cutlery and peered at me with a probing

any company to have its employees work overtime for so many days in a row. Hence, it was only normal that Natalie grew

knew that

been busier than usual lately, so I’ve been working overtime to meet deadlines,” I said against my conscience, then quickly bowed my head to continue

that really what’s

as

course. Alright, stop worrying about me. Anyways, I’m done eating, so I’m going back to my room now. I have

Natalie would insist on getting to the bottom of this, I darted

As I lay in bed, I began stewing over what would happen at the office the next day.

should never have said those things to Conrad on the

me, he’d make sure my life in the office was a living hell. Conrad was a very spiteful person. Now that I offended him, he was undoubtedly going to make it his mission to

it would only make me more frustrated. I’ll find out the exact

had no idea why they always singled me out like that when I didn’t do anything to offend them. I

during this period of time made me very uncomfortable, I refused to let them get to me. Ignoring all of them, I

saying, but seeing as they would peek at me from time to

“Anna, you’re here.”

person here whom I was on good

“Mm-hmm.”

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