Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 287

Pearl blinked with disappointment while looking at Richard.

Rubbing her head affectionately, Richard replied, “Yes, I’m aware of it.”

“I want to find my mother before getting engaged.”

“Don’t you hate her?”

Pearl shook her head. “I don’t remember much about her because she left when I was very young, but I know she’s a gentle and kind woman. She wouldn’t have given up on my father and me so easily, and I suspect there’s more to her disappearance.”

Richard understood Pearl’s desire to have her mother present at her engagement and marriage ceremonies. Though her father had passed away, there were still some clues left concerning her mother’s whereabouts.

Naturally, Richard didn’t object. “Okay, we’ll search for her together.”

Pearl beamed with gratitude. “Thank you, Richard.”

nothing. Let’s go home. I think you can ask my dad about what happened at that time. Maybe

headed to the Waldorf Residence, as it was the end of the workday.

reading newspapers, couldn’t help but feel a touch of melancholy

Dustan, I heard that you were close

refuse her request. Despite it being a

your mother went missing when you were two years old. James had

Pearl. “She went missing?”

he had spoken without considering Pearl’s knowledge on the matter and found himself at a loss

left home because she was angry with him, but she never returned after

seemed Pearl’s assumption was correct: her mother

gone

she’d be proud to know that

Dustan by surprise, deeply moving him. “I’ve been helping

these years, even after

mother had baffled everyone, leaving them wondering why there