Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 294

“Let you go? Pearl, you’re my granddaughter. Do you think I’d have the heart to let you live out there?”

Pearl wasn’t sure if he had the heart for it, but she found this old man rather extreme and not very pleasant. “I don’t need the Jordans to protect me. I’m fine on my own,” she retorted.

Ezra scoffed. “You don’t need our protection? Then whose protection do you need? The Waldorfs? I heard from the butler that you’re engaged to a Waldorf boy. Of all the men out there, you had to choose a Waldorf. Is he good enough for you?”

Pearl had managed to keep her annoyance in check until now, but hearing this, her expression. darkened. Ezra was clearly trying to assert his authority by pretending to be concerned.

“Who I’m engaged to is my business. It’s the twenty-first century. Are we still supposed to have arranged marriages?” Pearl’s tone grew fiercer with each word, shocking everyone present. Besides Blake, she seemed to be the only one willing to challenge Ezra.

“Very well, I’ll set that aside for now. Just promise me that you’ll stay here for the time being.”

Confine her? Pearl had expected this outcome, so she replied with a pained expression, “No, I have other things to attend to, so I can’t stay here.”

Waldorf boy will be safe.” His tone was calm,

family’s influence, which extended to both the police and the criminal underworld. No one would dare challenge the old man’s power.

him,

as he chuckled,

we leave

man’s favorite grandson, Blake was used to getting his way. Seeing his attitude, Ezra stopped interrogating Pearl and rolled his eyes at Blake. “She’s your cousin, and we’re family. How could you say that

our family.” Even though it was harsh, it was a sentiment shared by

throat. “Very well, you may leave now. Blake, since your cousin is not

eye twitched. “Why

around the same age, so it’ll be

There weren’t many members

son had Felix and Laura, the second son had Blake, and Ezra’s only daughter had Pearl. There were only four of