Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 524

“Tell me what you want,” Pearl said, not bothering to be polite with Hugo.

Hugo looked at her and grinned mysteriously. “Don’t you know what I want? Break up with Richard, and I’ll tell you everything.”

Pearl’s expression became exaggerated. “You’ve gone to great lengths to be the heir to the Waldorf estate. What’s the point of all this?”

“You wouldn’t understand. I simply despise Richard. If you break up with him, he’ll be heartbroken, and I love seeing him in pain. The more miserable he is, the happier I am.” Hugo couldn’t help but feel a surge of delight as he imagined how devastated Richard would be after their breakup.

“Forget it if that’s your reason,” Pearl retorted, shaking her head. She had no intention of letting this pointless clue jeopardize her love life.

Finding her mother was important, but not at the cost of her relationship with Richard.

As Pearl turned to leave, Hugo dropped a heavy bombshell. “But your mother is on the brink of death. Aren’t you curious to know where she is?”

face paled at his words. “How do you

and break up with him,

lowered her head,

scene. He had seen Hugo

filled with anger. Threatening Pearl to break up with him? Hugo was becoming

Pearl quickly ran to him, her voice trembling as she explained, “I didn’t run away on purpose. I found

she hadn’t fallen for Hugo’s tricks, or Richard would have

Richard said as he

I knew you wouldn’t-”

when we

words were like a death

at all, perhaps because he believed he had powerful backing. Richard, what

thrown out, it won’t be on some remote