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

early for work and was currently in a meeting

Gigi?"

They're probably out shopping or something," Hugo replied, thinking that Pearl was overreacting. He hung up quickly to attend

that the situation wasn't

but to wait patiently at home. Perhaps he

noon, there was still no sign

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

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

in documents. He looked up in surprise as Pearl stormed in

but this was a level of fury he hadn't witnessed in her

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