Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 525

Pearl found herself in a dilemma. On one hand, there were real leads about her mother’s whereabouts; on the other, they had been preparing for this engagement party for a long time.

She lowered her gaze and remained silent.

“Rick, look, even Pearl is tempted. You shouldn’t stop her.” Hugo raised his brow, confident that Pearl would choose what worked best for her.

“Richard, I really want to follow up on this clue,” Pearl finally spoke, her face troubled. “Can we proceed with our engagement after I find the answers?”

Richard looked at her with a mix of concern and determination. “Alright, but there’s no need for any trouble. We’ll go back to our engagement, and I’ll have my men extract the information from him.”

Hugo’s smile disappeared. What? While they enjoyed their engagement, he would be subjected to torture? What a joke!

Hugo raised his hand, and a few burly men appeared behind him. “I wanted to take the easy way, but you’re leaving me with no choice.”

could fight, they were outnumbered, and Hugo believed his men could overpower

“Get them!”

Hugo,” Richard said calmly, showing no signs of fear. He gestured, and a group of men instantly

seems we’re evenly matched, Rick.

to keep up his bravado.

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if you intend to kidnap someone, you should have brought more people. Not only did you fail, but you’re also in an even worse situation now.” She then tilted her

said that, a new group of people emerged.

Who were these people? Even his

Pearl lazily looked at Hugo, and seeing

heart dropped because he knew he

our engagement,” Pearl declared, determined not to let this delay ruin their special day. With such a disparity in numbers and the quality of

and issued orders to his men. “Keep Hugo alive. Do whatever you want with the rest.” Their fate