Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 320

Goddaughter?!

Hugo exclaimed in disbelief as he pointed at Pearl. “She’s your goddaughter?”

Pearl and Richard were equally surprised. Wasn’t this man the one who had sold them the medication? And now he was claiming to be the owner of the black market, Reese Cooper, and that Pearl was his goddaughter? That was outrageous,

Also, since when did she become his goddaughter?

“What? I can’t have a goddaughter?” Reese responded, his eyes widening in anger as he stood his ground.

Hugo attempted to defuse the situation, realizing he might be in trouble. “Of course, you can, “he said apologetically, trying to avoid confrontation with Reese. The latter was a powerful man who had a lot of people working for him, so he wasn’t going to clash with him.

that retreating and leaving as soon as possible was the wisest course

you suggesting that my goddaughter owes you something? It seems you were prepared to get it one way or another.

a respected figure. Who did Hugo think he was, acting like a gangster in

water, Hugo clenched his jaw and directed an apology towards Pearl. “I’m sorry,

prepared to depart, one

Let’s have a chat. If my goddaughter has made a mistake, I will apologize on her behalf.” It was obvious Reese wasn’t going to let Hugo

to give a detailed account of the situation. “He gave up the bid during the bidding, but

approached him as a crowd gathered around. Now, everyone knew that Hugo had not been able to afford the item from

lying, Reese scoffed. “Mister Hugo, is what she said true?”

need the ginkgo, so I wanted to discuss it with Miss

had to find an excuse. He then turned to Richard and said, “This is my brother, so why would I get into a conflict with him? I really just wanted to talk to Miss Pearl about it and wasn’t planning to take