Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 615

Pearl gave herself only half an hour to grieve. During that time, she made an effort to reconcile her feelings with Richard and bury her love deep within her heart.

What mattered most now was not dwelling on her sorrow but saving her mother. She couldn’t afford to sit idle and give up.

After mustering her resolve, she called Drew, anxiously rubbing her phone while waiting for it to connect. When the call was finally answered, she snapped back to reality and began

speaking.

“Drew?”

However, there was silence on the other end for a while, and Pearl started to think that someone had picked up the call by mistake. Then, she heard a familiar voice.

“Pearl.”

“Why did you pick it

glanced at the bathroom, where Drew was taking a bath. Then, he continued,

asked tentatively, “Are

would have assumed that you still wanted to marry me if you asked me that.”

Pearl retorted,

I’ll stop teasing you.”

if nothing unusual had happened between them. It felt like they were still the partners who worked together at the company, and this eased Pearl’s discomfort.

calling him instead of me?”

momentarily speechless. However, she knew that Sean was also a Cooper, and he would find out about her plans sooner or later. Deciding not to keep it a secret,

reason behind her request. “You want to leave

nodded, acknowledging that she couldn’t hide the truth from him. “Yeah, I want to go

he can’t arrange the cargo ship for you. You called the wrong

she was disappointed, she understood that others weren’t obligated to help her.

You don’t have to tell Drew either. Just forget about it.” Pearl was about to hang up