Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 326

However, after waiting for four long hours, Pearl still hadn’t received the ginkgo. Growing increasingly uneasy, she decided to call Simon, only to discover that he had sent the herb to Waldorf Residence in Enswood. Her heart sank as she realized the potential implications.

Next, she dialed their family home but no one picked up. Just as she was about to redial, an unfamiliar number came through. Startled, she picked up the call, and the voice on the other end sent shivers down her spine.

“Pearl. Are you expecting to get some ginkgo?” The voice belonged to Hugo, and it was laced with coldness and malice.

Pearl’s uneasiness deepened upon hearing his voice, as it confirmed her fears that Hugo had intercepted the ginkgo. A sinking feeling settled in her stomach.

“I heard Richard is badly hurt. This ginkgo is for him, isn’t it?” Hugo’s tone was gloating, as if he believed he held all the cards now.

Pearl’s eyes turned icy. “You got someone to do this? Hugo, give it back to me.”

I return something I have in my possession?” Hugo’s attitude was far from gracious, and the earlier humiliation seemed to have intensified his irritation. “It just so happened that I returned home

in the balance, and Pearl

it, you have to offer me something that I would want.” Hugo was clearly relishing

to contain her anger but knew she had to handle the situation calmly.

doesn’t sound very sincere. Take a guess what I

was well aware of Hugo’s ulterior motives but decided to test him.

don’t up with Richard and choose me instead? Then, the ginkgo

I only want the company and you, nothing else.”

girlfriend,” Pearl

response was unsettlingly perverse. “I