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.”

did you pick it up? Where’s

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

a short hesitation, Pearl asked

me that.” Sean chuckled, and though Pearl couldn’t see him, she could imagine

retorted, “Nonsense.”

stop teasing

unusual had happened between them. It felt like they were still the partners who worked together at the

why are you calling him instead

left Pearl 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, she answered honestly, “I called Drew because I need to borrow his

deduce the reason behind her request. “You want to leave secretly,

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

teasing her. “But he can’t arrange the cargo ship for you. You called the wrong

had expected a refusal, and while she was disappointed, she understood that others weren’t obligated

have to tell Drew either. Just forget about it.”