The effect of the medicine may have been so strong that Pearl slept until the next day.

When Pearl finally woke up, she suddenly remembered that Gigi hadn't asked her for the ointment the day before. She rummaged through her drawer, found a bandage, and prepared to take it to Gigi's room. Standing at the entrance, she knocked several times, but there was no response. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Find ɴøᴠel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Gigi wasn't in her room, and there wasn't any activity downstairs, so Pearl decided to check Beah's room.

She knocked on the door, but there was still no answer.

Sensing something was wrong, Pearl pushed the door open. To her surprise, the room was immaculately clean, as if no one had ever lived there.

Pearl felt a sudden rush of panic. She hurried to Gigi's room, opened the door abruptly, and found it in a similar state, neat and empty.

both

had left early for work and was currently

my mom and Gigi?"

of a meeting. Please don't disturb me. They're probably out shopping or something," Hugo replied, thinking that Pearl was overreacting. He hung up quickly to attend to the urgent matters at hand, assuming

the

to wait patiently at home. Perhaps he was right that they might have just gone out shopping and

there was still no sign of

the feeling that something was seriously wrong. She quickly tried to find any information about their whereabouts, but being in a foreign country made

Hugo's room, a thought gradually surfaced in her mind. She considered the possibility that Hugo might have hidden them as a way to pressure her into marrying him. With this suspicion in mind, she hailed a taxi and went straight to his

she arrived, Hugo was in his office, engrossed in documents. He looked up in surprise as Pearl stormed in

had seen Pearl angry before, but this was a level of fury he hadn't witnessed in her before. "What's

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