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.”

decisions. “Pearl, if you comply, that Waldorf boy will be safe.” His tone

police and the criminal underworld. No one would dare challenge the old

stared at him, then nodded.

he chuckled, praising Pearl for her understanding.

nothing else, can we leave now? Is there

to getting his way. Seeing his attitude, Ezra stopped interrogating Pearl

even want to be part of our family.”

now. Blake, since your cousin is not

twitched. “Why me?”

the same age, so it’ll be easier for

There weren’t many members of

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