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.

able to keep our relationship a secret from Natalie anymore. I couldn’t help but worry if she would look down on

solemn expression, “Anna, why do I have

my eyes

asking this all of

make sense that such a large company like Joyful Success would need their employees to work

put down her cutlery and peered

any company to have its employees work overtime for so many days in a row.

Natalie’s temper, if she knew that I was being harassed and exploited by

to meet deadlines,” I said against my conscience, then quickly bowed

really what’s going

scrutinizing me, as though

Anyways, I’m done eating, so I’m going back to my room now. I have to wake up

the bottom of this, I darted toward my room right

I breathed a long sigh of relief. As I lay in bed, I began stewing over what would happen at the office the next day. I won’t really get fired, would

should never have said those things to

very spiteful person. Now that I offended him, he was

over this matter as it would only make me

had no idea why they always singled me out like that when I didn’t do anything to offend them. I couldn’t help but wonder if it was because two of my colleagues saw me being forcefully hugged by Conrad, and that was

time made me very uncomfortable, I refused to let

as they would peek at me from

“Anna, you’re here.”

Scott, the only person here whom I was on good

“Mm-hmm.”

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