Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 187

Pearl felt increasingly frustrated. She walked off the stage, strangely wanting to explain herself to Richard, even though she didn’t really need to.

What could she possibly say? That she had no idea this would happen, and she couldn’t just walk out on Hanzel during his concert? She didn’t want to ruin his performance.

Pearl hung her head and tuned out the world around her. All she knew was that Richard was angry at her and ignoring her.

When they got home, Pearl finally saw Richard. He was sitting on the couch, working as if he hadn’t seen her at the concert.

Pearl tried to start a conversation on a random topic. “You went to the concert today?”

Richard nodded and didn’t say anything more.

“Are you angry?” she asked.

Richard couldn’t help but scoff at her questioning. “Why do you care if I’m upset? Weren’t you enjoying yourself with Hanzel?

rose. “There’s nothing between me and

what I saw was just

“That was just part of the concert.

angry when

“Why are you so

own behavior. “I’m sorry for overreacting. I shouldn’t try to control you,” he said, then stood up and

feeling wronged

colleagues at

approached, and during a meeting, Richard proposed designing couple’s rings to sell

of the employees, Sophia Arnault, a recent addition to the design team, stood up. “Can I take this project please?” She wasn’t usually outspoken, but on this day, she took the

you handle

smiled confidently. “Of course. Pearl came up with an excellent proposal shortly after joining the company, so I’d

give it a try too.”

turned to Pearl and smiled. “Pearl, I wouldn’t be stealing your thunder by doing this,